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Suffolk County Police Commissioner Rodney K. Harrison holds a mugshot of Joseph Scalafani last month at a news conference. Scalafani, wanted in connection with a fatal shooting May 20 in Mastic Beach, was taken into custody in Florida on Sunday morning, Suffolk police said.  Credit: Barry Sloan

A 32-year-old Mastic Beach man wanted in connection with a fatal shooting last month in the hamlet was apprehended Sunday in Florida, Suffolk County police said in a news release. 

Deputies with the Pinellas County Sheriff’'s Department took Joseph Scalafani into custody shortly before 7 a.m. near St. Pete Beach, a county park in St. Petersburg, Florida, according to Suffolk police. He will be returned to Suffolk County for arraignment following an extradition hearing, police said.

At a May 26 news conference, Suffolk police identified Scalafani as a suspect in the shooting death of Alex Smith at 2 a.m. on May 20 in a parking lot at 373 Neighborhood Road in Mastic Beach.

Smith, 30, of Mastic was pronounced dead at the scene.

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