SOMERSET, NJ – A 45-year-old Somerset man has been arrested and charged for the February 15th murder of Carbel Azouki, 44, in Upper Manhattan.
Tamir Styles was charged by the NYPD with murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.
According to police, at around 10 pm on February 15th, Styles shotAzouki multiple times, striking him in the head and chest.
Police received multiple 911 calls regarding the shooting and responded to find the victim unresponsive and unconscious in the area of West 163rd Street and Riverside Drive in Washington Heights. He was taken to Lincoln Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Azouki was a resident of the Bronx.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or on Twitter @NYPDTips.