Man Charged With Homicide 4 Years After Wash Height Shooting: NYPD

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, NY — A man was charged with homicide last week, four years after a person was shot and killed in Washington Heights, police said on Tuesday.

New Jersey resident Angel Florian, 22, was arrested and charged with criminally negligent homicide, attempted robbery, criminal possession of a weapon, hindering prosecution, and tampering with physical evidence, stemming from a 2019 shooting on West 168th Street, police said.

On Oct. 3, 2019, NYPD officers found a man shot in his chest in front of 501 W. 168th St., police said.

Medics rushed him to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center where he was pronounced dead, police said.

He was later identified by authorities as Washington Heights resident 27-year-old Alberto Martinez.

Florian was not the first person arrested in connection to the 168th Street shooting, as fellow Patterson, New Jersey, resident Jerson Acosta Batista was arrested on the same charges in October, 2022.