NYPD detectives have arrested the gunman who fatally shot a 23-year-old man outside his Bronx apartment building last summer, police said Friday.
Daunte Pugh, 43, was apprehended by 45th Precinct detectives on Tuesday morning, officials said.
He was charged with murder, manslaughter and weapons possession for the Aug. 2, 2025 murder of Shane Sanchez.
Sanchez was arguing with a man outside his Sampson Ave. building near Huntington Ave., part of NYCHA’s Throggs Neck Houses, at around 1:45 a.m. when he was blasted in the chest.
EMS rushed him to Jacobi Hospital, but he couldn’t be saved.
A motive for the killing was not immediately disclosed.
A short time earlier, cops had been called to the same address to break up a large fight outside, but it wasn’t immediately clear if the two acts of violence were related.
Pugh’s arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court was pending Friday. The murder suspect lives in Willingboro NJ, about 90 miles south of Throggs Neck.
Neighbors described Sanchez as a good kid who stayed out of trouble.
“A very humble kid who got along with everybody,” Blanca Melendez, told News 12 Bronx after the killing. “Everybody loved him. He’d do favors for anybody that needed a favor.”
“He was a quiet kid, quiet kid, happy kid,” added Nelson Fernandez. “He would make you laugh. He was very into collecting baseball cards.”
At the time of his death, Sanchez was the fourth person to be shot and the third person to be killed in the Throgs Neck neighborhood in a week, cops said.
Five days before Sanchez was killed, two men were shot to death on Brush Ave. near Schley Ave., just outside Ferry Point Park in Throgs Neck, cops said.
Victim Adam Waldropt, 29, was shot in the abdomen and buttocks and Gabriel Alvarez, 22, was hit in the armpit and shoulder, police said. Medics rushed both victims to Jacobi Medical Center but they could not be saved.
Two men wearing ski masks fled the scene on a moped.
In March, Darwin Martinez, 20, was arrested for the double killing, even though cops first released images of the six men and a woman, who were near the scene and wanted for questioning.
Two days before the double murder, a 21-year-old man was shot and wounded around 3:30 a.m. on the same desolate block, which is about a mile and a half from where Sanchez was killed, cops said.
