Suspect in September Brooklyn electrician shooting arrested in Georgia
Police said on Sunday that a suspect in the murder of a Brooklyn electrician in September was detained in Georgia.
Shamar Wiltshire allegedly got out of his car and shot and killed 30-year-old Ronald Ortiz, who was dining under a canopy at Boulevard Houses in East New York around 11:55 am on September 14th.
Police said Wiltshire fired half a dozen point-blank shots, hitting Ortiz four times. Detectives chief James Essig said the shooter “specially targeted” Ortiz.
Wiltshire fled but was caught by police in Stockbridge, Georgia, police said. He was extradited to New York on Friday and is now awaiting arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court.
Police say Wiltshire lives in the boulevards, just steps from the crime scene on Stanley Avenue near Ashford Street. On Sunday, an NYPD spokesman had no information about the motive for the murder.
Two days after Ortiz’s murder, more than 400 people gathered on a baseball field in McCarren Park on the border between Greenpoint and Williamsburg to mourn him, placing his hard hat on the pitcher’s mound next to candles, floating lanterns and bouquets of flowers.
Ortiz, 30, worked as an electrician and construction worker and played in several Williamsburg softball leagues and the local basketball league.
He grew up in Greenpoint and attended Grand Street Campus High School, where he played baseball for four years.
“Ronnie was a gentleman on and off the field,” Melvin Martinez, 53, Ortiz’s high school baseball coach, said at the vigil. “He continued to play great baseball after high school.”
Wiltshire, 22, lives in East New York, police said.
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