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A gunman has been charged with the murder of a 28-year-old Moroccan, New York police said on Tuesday. Jailyn Wagner was charged with second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter after members of the NYPD’s Violent Felony Squad descended on his home Monday morning, reports the New York Post.
On July 23, Wagner shot Moroccan national Idriss Cherif El Farissy in the head outside his Bronx apartment building in New York, authorities said. Wagner was the son of a tenant who lived in the same building, according to El Farissy’s fiancée, Maria.
«This person has destroyed our family», Maria told The Post. El Farissy was shot as he was returning from work as a delivery driver. He had just parked his car when he encountered the shooter.
«When he got to the house, I was with him on the phone, and he told me, ‘Baby, I’m going to park the car. Let me hang up on you, just so that I can park, and I’m coming inside'», Maria recalled. «And I thought, like, OK, but by the time he hung up the phone and got out of the car, all I heard were shots outside the house».
After the shooting, Wagner searched the victim’s pockets before running away on a bike.
El Farissy had been living in the U.S. since he was 17. He attended an international high school in New York before enrolling at Medgar Evers College, and later at Baruch College, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in finance.
Hours before the murder, he visited his parents to say goodbye because he and Maria were planning an upcoming vacation. However, Papa John’s, where he worked, called him in for help because they were short-staffed.
The Moroccan previously worked as a provider contracts manager at Emblem Health for five years but later took a job as a delivery driver at Papa John’s. At Papa John’s, he was even named «Employee of the Month» twice.
During the same month, Wagner shot another man. Investigations are ongoing to clarify the exact motives for the murders.
