Penn Station Shooting Suspect Caught in Rhode Island: Police

Francisco Alsina is believed to be the man on the left. Photo courtesy of the NYPD

Francisco Alsina, 23, the man suspected of killing one and injuring two more in a shooting near Penn Station early Monday morning, was taken into custody by the US Marshals Fugitive Task Force, according to ABC7.

The NYPD could not immediately confirm Alsina’s identity, but a police spokeswoman told Patch that a suspect in the shooting had been apprehended in Rhode Island and was awaiting extradition.

Alsina was reportedly caught when he gave his real name at a Rhode Island hospital.

The suspect’s alleged accomplice, 27-year-old Vincent Arcona, was reportedly caught earlier in the week at a hospital in the Bronx.

Although Arcona gave a fake name, ”hospital staff recognized him as one of the two men wanted in the Midtown shooting and called police,” ABC7 reported.

Police believe Arcona, whose last known address was 2600 Race Avenue in Medford, Long Island, led three people out of the McDonald’s on 8th Avenue before another man wearing a hoodie — believed to be Alsina — approached the trio from behind and opened fire.

The three men were struck around 6:15 a.m. inside the A/C/E subway station at West 35th Street and 8th Avenue. A 43-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. The two others were taken to the hospital, one in critical condition and the other stable.

Prior to the shooting, Arcona, who lists his occupation on Facebook as “street pharmacist,” apparently had told the three victims that they could no longer sell drugs near the McDonald’s, the New York Post reported.

The victims are rumored to have been members of a methadone program at the nearby West Midtown Medical Group.