In the early morning hours of September 20, 2025, a verbal dispute on a street in the Longwood section of the Bronx escalated into deadly violence, claiming the life of 46-year-old Amaury Carrion. The male victim was gunned down just a few doors down from his own home on Reverend James A. Polite Avenue. The sound of the argument was quickly followed by the crackle of gunfire, and when police responded to a 911 call around 12:30 a.m., they found Carrion lying on the pavement with multiple
gunshot wounds to his torso. Emergency medical services rushed him to Lincoln Hospital, but his injuries proved to be too severe, and he was pronounced dead.
In the immediate aftermath, the New York Police Department began an intensive search for the person responsible for this brazen act of violence. Witnesses reported seeing a male suspect, clad in a gray or white hooded sweatshirt, fleeing the scene on a bicycle, heading northbound on Reverend James A. Polite Avenue. As detectives processed the crime scene, they found shell casings and a bloody shirt, stark evidence of the brutal final moments of Carrion’s life. For weeks, the case remained under active investigation, with no arrests made, leaving a community on edge and a family grieving the sudden loss of a man described as a devoted father.
More than a month after the fatal shooting, a significant breakthrough was made in the case. On October 29, 2025, the NYPD arrested 42-year-old Marcus Jayson, a resident of Harlem, in connection with the murder of Amaury Carrion. Following his arrest by officers from the 41st Precinct, Jayson was charged with murder, manslaughter, and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon. Law enforcement sources indicated that the shooting had been preceded by a verbal altercation between Jayson and Carrion, though the specific nature of their dispute was not immediately made public.
