Two young men were arrested in connection to the homicide of a 65-year-old man whose body was left on the roof of a south Bronx McDonalds in a plastic bag one week ago.
The NYPD reported that Baychester man, 21-year-old Jonathan Rodriguez of 2240 Hunter Avenue was recently arrested on murder charges along with Brooklyn 18-year-old man Ayame Stamoulis of 198 Linden Boulevard, who was picked up by police on Friday, July 17 for the death of 65-year-old Bronx man, Richard Hamlet.
Hamlet lived at 281 E. 149th Street, right next to the McDonalds at 279 E. 149th Street where his body was brought to at about 5:57 a.m. on Wednesday, July 15.
Police have not yet determined a motive in Hamlet’s killing nor has his cause of death yet been announced by a medical examiner.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or on Twitter @NYPDTips. All calls and messages are strictly confidential.
