Upstate NY teen arrested in murder of man at his own birthday party

An upstate New York teen has been arrested connected execution and related charges successful the sidesplitting of a 21-year-old antheral who was changeable aggregate times astatine his own day party successful the Town of Southport past weekend.

Michael Williams, 17, of Elmira, was taken into custody pursuing a weeklong probe into the execution of J’Sean Williams (no relation), the Chemung County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday.

The incidental unfolded conscionable earlier 1 a.m. connected Nov. 16, erstwhile aggregate instrumentality enforcement agencies responded to a “large party” astatine a location successful Southport, adjacent the Pennsylvania border, for reports of a shooting.

When deputies arrived astatine the residence, they determined 1 idiosyncratic had suffered from aggregate gunshot wounds and the alleged shooter had fled the scene.

The victim, aboriginal identified arsenic J’Sean Williams, was celebrating his day with a radical of 30 to 50 people, according to WETM. He was rushed to Arnot Ogden Medical Center wherever helium was aboriginal pronounced dead.

After aggregate interviews with witnesses and the betterment of “dozens of items of evidence,” investigators named the younger Williams arsenic a suspect.

Further probe yet led authorities to a residence successful Binghamton, astir 55 miles eastbound of Elmira, wherever the fishy was located and arrested without incident. He’s since been charged with second-degree execution and 2 counts of second-degree transgression possession of a weapon.

The Chemung County Sheriff’s Office said the probe into what led to the fatal shooting is inactive ongoing.