The Bronx District Attorney’s office announced that a 31-year-old Manhattan man was indicted for a double murder near Pelham Bay Park in May 2022, shortly after his arrest last week.
Jahmel Sanders was indicted — or formally accused — last Thursday of shooting 22-year-old Nikki Huang and 22-year-old Jesse Parrilla execution-style in a car, and then setting fire to the vehicle and their bodies on Shore Road in the Bronx on May 16, 2022.
The indictment came just two days after Sanders was arrested. A source told our affiliate amNewYork that the defendant was found by the Joint Fugitive Task Force hiding out in a Bronx homeless shelter and taken into custody.
Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said in the indictment announcement that she hopes the victims get justice.
“I hope this indictment brings some solace to the victims’ parents; they suffer the loss of their children who were burned beyond recognition,” she said.
According to the DA’s office, the investigation states that around 9:30 p.m. on May 15, 2022, Huang told friends “who are alleged gang members” that someone stole her purse in Manhattan. The DA’s announcement states that about two hours later, a man — who was not named in the announcement — was shot and killed in Manhattan. The DA’s office did not specify a connection between Huang and her friends and the person killed in Manhattan.
Then, at around 1:20 a.m. on May 16, 2022, Parrilla allegedly dropped Huang off near her home on the Lower East Side in his mother’s Honda Accord, the information from the DA’s office states. Afterward, Sanders and accomplices allegedly approached Parrilla, moved him to another car, and took the Accord.
About 20 minutes later Huang was allegedly “lured” out of her home and taken in Parrilla’s mother’s car, according to the DA’s investigation. A little while later, Sanders and accomplices were allegedly involved in a shooting in Queens with Parrilla and Huang present,…
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