Cops nab second scooter-riding suspect in deadly Bronx shooting

Cops person arrested and charged a 2nd antheral with 2nd grade execution successful a Bronx shooting that killed a beloved 29-year-old father successful April, constabulary said Saturday.

Robert Valdez-Pena, 27, was besides deed with transgression possession of a limb and reckless endangerment charges for his relation successful the spray of bullets that killed Miguel Doleo and wounded 3 different men connected a Bronx thoroughfare corner.

Valdez-Pena has respective priors, each wrong the past year, according to constabulary sources. He was astir precocious charged with reckless endangerment successful June, and his rap expanse besides carries expansive larceny charges.

In June, police nabbed a 21-year-old Bronx resident who they identified arsenic riding 1 of the 2 mopeds that zipped by Doleo the evening of April 16. The backmost passengers of some mopeds opened occurrence adjacent Townsend Ave. successful Mount Eden astir 6:15 p.m., cops said.

About 10 shots were fired off, fatally striking Doleo successful the thorax and leg, and wounding 3 different victims who were expected to survive, according to police.

Cops Saturday nighttime did not corroborate whether Valdez-Pena was 1 of the gunmen.

Gardiner Anderson for New York Daily News

Police analyse aft 4 radical were changeable connected East Mount Eden Avenue and Townsend Avenue successful the Bronx, New York City connected Tuesday, April 16 2024.

Doleo’s household described him arsenic a loving begetter of six children who would beryllium sorely missed.

“He was a large man,” the victim’s sister, Lauren Delgado, told the Daily News astatine the time. “He was similar nary other. He was loved by everyone.”

In the aftermath of the murder, NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry told reporters that the department’s assemblage effect squad had been “going aggressively aft radical connected scooters,” successful the weeks earlier the shooting. The deadly incidental spurred them to hone successful connected “individuals riding astir connected amerciable scooters, ungraded bikes and ATVs,” helium said.