Roosevelt man to face murder charge
Alcides Diaz-Fernandez, 32, of 88 Bennett Ave., Roosevelt, faces arraignment on a second-degree murder charge Thursday in First District Court in Hempstead.
Detectives say he killed Jose Romero, 31, who suffered "cuts and lacerations" in the altercation at 7:10 p.m. June 3. Romero was taken that night to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow where he was pronounced dead two hours later.
The Nassau Homicide Squad, the U.S. Marshal's New York-New Jersey Task Force and a Homeland Security Investigations Unit worked together in the arrest of Diaz-Fernandez in Essex County, N.J., police said.
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