After an intensive 14 month manhunt, the New York State Police and the FBI Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force located Murphy inside a residence in the town of Ramapo, Rockland County. He was then transported to the Orange County jail and remanded without bail.
The State Police wish to thank the following agencies who assisted in the manhunt: the FBI, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York, the Rockland County District Attorney’s Office, Town of Ramapo Police, Town of Haverstraw Police, Town of Newburgh Police Department, City of Newburgh Police Department, Jacksonville Police Department in Jacksonville, NC, the Gastonia Police Department (North Carolina), the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force (DETF)
14-month manhunt leads to murder charge against Middletown man
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Jan 21, 2021, 5:56pm EST
There has been a break in a
Wallkill murder case after an intensive 14-month manhunt.
Police and the FBI raided a
home on Dwight Avenue early Thursday, and arrested Jamaad Mikal Murphy.
He s accused of shooting and
killing Matthew Napoleoni outside of the Made in Puerto Rico Latin Cuisine and
Sports Bar in Wallkill in November 2019.
The 27-year-old Murphy is facing murder in the second degree
and is being held at the Orange County jail without bail.
The
house on Dwight Avenue was also involved in two
RAMAPO, N.Y. (AP) A 27-year-old man has been arrested in a killing outside an Orange County bar after a 14-month search, New York state police announced Thursday. Jamaad Mikal Murphy, of Middletown, was arrested on a second-degree murder charge in the Nov. 3, 2019 shooting death of Matthew Napoleoni outside the Made in Puerto Rico Latin Cuisine and Sports Bar in the town of Wallkill, police said. Napoleoni, 23, was killed after a fight in the.
Jamaad Murphy, 27, taken into custody after New York State Police and the FBI Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force tracked him down to a Ramapo, N.Y. home, said police.
Cops, FBI catch NY murder suspect after 14-month manhunt
By FOX 5 NY Staff
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Jamaad Mikal Murphy (Via New York State Police/FBI)
MIDDLETOWN, N.Y. - The police and federal agents have captured an upstate New York man who was wanted for a 2019 murder in Orange County, officials said.
State troopers and agents with the FBI Hudson Valley Safe Streets Task Force arrested Jamaad Mikal Murphy, 27, at a home in Ramapo in Rockland County this week, New York State Police announced on Thursday. They brought Murphy to the Orange County jail, where he was remanded without bail.
Murphy, of Middletown, got into a fight with Matthew Napoleoni, 23, inside Made in Puerto Rico Latin Cuisine and Sports Bar in Wallkill on Nov. 3, 2019, police said. The brawl spilled into the parking lot, where Murphy shot and killed Napoleoni and then took off, police said.