Shooter involved in PAL shooting in New York detained

Authorities said Friday that a man wanted in connection with the fatal injury of a 15-year-old boy outside a Police Athletic League gym in the Bronx had just been apprehended in North Carolina.

Jameer Skarbro, 20, was arrested Wednesday in Charlotte by the Carolinas Regional Fugitive US Marshals Task Force after NYPD tracked him to the area, federal authorities said.

Skarbro is accused of shooting two boys – aged 15 and 16 – outside the Longwood Avenue Leisure Center near Fox Street around 8:50 p.m. Jan. 19.

According to police, a 15-year-old teenager named Josue Lopez-Ortega was shot in the head and could not be saved. The 16-year-old was shot in the leg and had to survive.


JAMIR SCARBRO, 20, from the Mecklenburg County Jail website, is wanted in connection with a shooting near the Police Athletic League.
Skarbro was in hiding in North Carolina after the PAL shooting, authorities said.
Mecklenburg County Jail

Authorities believe the two teenagers were targeted as they walked out of the PAL in a crowd of people, though it is not clear why.

Scarbrough is being held at the Mecklenburg County Jail and is expected to be extradited to New York to face charges.

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