The reckless hoodlum who allegedly gunned down beloved Harlem fixture Excenia “Momma Zee” Mette in a tragic stray-bullet capturing has surrendered to authorities, The Put up has discovered.
A 23-year-old man from Bronx was in custody after he turned himself in at Manhattan’s legal courthouse Monday morning – almost every week after the fateful gun battle outdoors Mette’s residence constructing, sources mentioned.
He’ll face homicide and legal possession of a weapon costs, the sources mentioned.
Police consider the person shot Mette, 61, by mistake late April 22 as he exchanged bullets with Darious Smith, 23, late close to West 113th Road and Lenox Avenue, in response to sources.
The kindly Mette had rushed outdoors to examine on her grandson after listening to gunfire, neighbors mentioned. She bought caught within the crossfire and took a bullet to the top, harrowing video exhibits.
Smith, who was arrested close by with a gunshot wound to his foot, faces an tried homicide cost.
Mette’s former enterprise, Momma Zee’s Meals to Plez Deli, was the primary black woman-owned bodega within the metropolis when she opened it within the Eighties.
Mourners, together with the Rev. Al Sharpton, marched Saturday in honor of Mette, whom they remembered because the “Mayor of Harlem.”
“My grandmother should be here,” mentioned her heartbroken grandson Jarian Jordan Jr., 24. “We have to stop the senseless gun violence.”
— Further reporting by Joe Marino
