Arrest Made In Washington Heights Cold Case Murder, Police Say

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — A man is facing charges in connection to a 1990 murder that occurred in Washington Heights, police said.

Pedro Jiminez, 46, was arrested Thursday in Liberty, New York, police said. Jiminez is accused of shooting Mario Delacruz, 19, across the street from Highbridge Park 28 years ago, police said.

Delacruz was standing in front of a building on Amsterdam Avenue between West 175th and 176th streets when he was shot multiple times, police said. Jiminez would have been 18 years old at the time of the shooting.

Jiminez was identified as the shooter after the NYPD detectives who initially worked the case re-opened the investigations as members of the Manhattan district attorney's cold case squad, the Daily News reported. The investors re-interviewed witnesses of the shooting and were able to find people who could identify Jiminez as the gunman, according to the report.

The accused shooter was tracked down in Liberty, New York, a small town of about 800 people in the Catskills.

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