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.
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