Cops: 16-year-old Hempstead boy facing charges in August killing
Responding officers found 27-year-old Alexis Gonzalez-Sanchez shortly after 1 a.m. in a parking lot at 445 Union Ave. in Westbury with a gunshot wound. Credit: Google Maps
A 16-year-old Hempstead boy faces charges in the fatal shooting of a Melville man found in Westbury last month.
The teenager, whose identity was not released, was arrested in connection with the Aug. 16 shooting death of Alexis Gonzales-Sanchez, Nassau police said Monday.
The suspect will be charged and arraigned in Youth Court, police said.
Responding officers found 27-year-old Gonzalez-Sanchez shortly after 1 a.m. in a parking lot at 445 Union Ave. with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at a hospital, police said.
At the time, police said the parking lot was near a house party but they did not say whether the fatal shooting had any connection.
Vera Chinese joined Newsday in 2017 after working as an editor for the East End lifestyle publication northforker and a general assignment reporter for the New York Daily News.
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