A second suspect, once convicted of murder, is caught robbing his beloved Manhattan great-grandmother.

A second suspect, who once served 27 years for murder, has been detained in connection with the robbery of a beloved great-grandmother found bound and strangled in her Upper West Side apartment, police said Wednesday.

Homeless suspect Terrence Moore has been charged with the January 18 burglary and murder of 74-year-old Maria Hernandez. Lashon Makki, a former building manager, was arrested on Saturday on the same charges.

Using CCTV footage, detectives were able to track Moore from the Hernandez home on 83rd Street, just off Columbus Avenue, to a homeless shelter in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where he was arrested without incident on Tuesday.

According to court records, Moore was convicted of murder, attempted robbery, and possession of a weapon in 1990. He was paroled in 2017 but was arrested later that year on four counts of violent touching, police said.

Maria Hernandez

Police believe Moore, 53, helped McKee, 47, break into Hernandez’s apartment. When she returned home from a Broadway matinee and an early dinner with her younger sister Maria Tirredo, the two allegedly found her in her apartment, bound and strangled as they ransacked her house for valuables.

According to the police, it was not immediately clear whether something had been stolen.

According to police, Hernandez’s sister found her brother dead with his hands and feet tied and gagged. The beloved Dominican immigrant had three daughters, eight grandchildren and a one-year-old great-grandson, according to relatives.

“She was a wonderful person, a wonderful woman,” Tirredo told Daily News on Saturday. “She is kind, loving, caring. Anything you can imagine can be a good person.”

Tirredo found her sister dead after her niece called and said she couldn’t get through to Hernandez.

LaShon Makki appeared before the Manhattan Criminal Court.

Police began looking for Moore after they discovered surveillance footage of McKee with another man around the time of the murder, police sources said.

Police released images of Moore on Monday as they asked the public for help in finding him.

McKee was held without bail after being charged in Manhattan criminal court Sunday, where prosecutors said the killing was premeditated, citing a break-in in the current superintendent’s basement office prior to the murder. Prosecutors said the only item stolen was a video recorder that could record video from security cameras inside the building.

According to McKee’s New York County Protective Services attorney, McKee worked in the building some time after serving his 1999 assault sentence and parole.

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