Arrest Made In Fatal Upper West Side Shooting: NYPD

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — An Upper West Side resident was arrested and charged with murder on Monday in connection with the fatal shooting of a Virginia man in the neighborhood in May, police said.

Donta King, 24, a resident of a building on West 100th Street near Amsterdam, was charged with murder, assault, reckless endangerment, and criminal use of a firearm, police said.

The charges step from a shooting on May 1, when police found Ronald Thomas, 28, in the front seat of his car at 140 W. 102nd St., near Amsterdam, with a gunshot wound to his head, NYPD said.

He died at the scene.

Witnesses told the Daily News that Thomas, who was visiting from Virginia, was having an "intense" argument with a woman outside a building on the street, before the situation escalated and a gunman drove up outside the Frederick Douglass Houses and fired.

A warrant was issues for King's arrest on Aug. 5, sparking a manhunt for the man that eventually lead to his capture Monday, the Daily News reported.