Syracuse, N.Y. — A third person has been charged with murder in connection with the September shooting on Syracuse’s South Side that killed a 26-year-old man.
Rephayah Oselmo, 18, of Syracuse, was arrested Tuesday in Fayetteville, Arkansas, by the U.S. Marshals Service and charged with second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, according to Kieran Coffey, a spokesperson for the Syracuse Police Department.
Authorities found Oselmo around 4 p.m., police said. He tried to flee by jumping from a second-story window but was quickly arrested. He will be held in Arkansas pending extradition to Syracuse.
Oselmo is the third person charged in the murder of Jakari Townsend , who was found unresponsive with gunshot wounds on Sept. 16 in front of the J & B Grocery a