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18-year-old charged for murder of Elijah Dukuray

by Adam Devine
NYPD officers responding to emergency call. File photo by Roy Janssen

NEW YORK, NY – Detectives with the New York City Police Department’s 47th Precinct have made an arrest in the November murder of 23-year-old Bronx man Elijah Dukuray.

On November 24th, Dukuray was shot outside Bronxwood Avenue and East 233rd Street. Police officers and medical personnel arrived to find him unconscious with a gunshot wound to the neck.

He was taken to NYC Health and Hospitals/Jacobi where he was pronounced dead.

On Wednesday, an 18-year-old suspect was arrested and charged with murder and manslaughter. The man’s name was not released by police due to the shooter being a minor at the time of the shooting.

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