Leaving prison, Hempstead man arrested in 2006 killing
A 22-year-old Hempstead man was arrested Friday, moments after he was released from an upstate maximum-security prison, and charged with a 2006 murder in Hempstead.
Jonathan Mayzick was charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Ryan Harris, 18, of Hempstead on Nov. 22, 2006.
Mayzick was leaving Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, N.Y., to begin parole after serving time for a 2008 stabbing in Hempstead when Nassau homicide detectives arrested him in the Harris killing.
Harris, who had graduated from Hempstead High School earlier in 2006, was shot and killed while walking on Gladys Street to a friend's home to play video games.
Days after that killing, police had made no arrests, and Nassau Det. Sgt Stephen Palmer said there was no clear motive for the shooting. "He could very well have been in the wrong place at the wrong time," Palmer said.
Homicide detectives were not available Friday to say why they now believe Mayzick killed Harris, or what the motive might have been.
Mayzick was arrested in March 2008 after a youth was stabbed in the elbow during a night-school class at Hempstead High School.
That stabbing came amid rising concerns over teen violence in the school district and may have contributed to the resignation later that month of schools Superintendent Nathaniel Class.
Mayzick was scheduled to be arraigned on the murder charge Saturday in First District Court, Hempstead, police said.
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