Defendant Allegedly Shot Victim in Bronx Public Housing Building
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Manhattan man has been
indicted for Murder and related crimes for fatally shooting a 24-year-old Bronx man.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant stands charged with shooting a young man
he knew, and then callously leaving the dying man to be found later by residents of the public
housing building.”
District Attorney Clark said the defendant, Salim Wilson, 25, of 131 West 135th Street,
was indicted on second-degree Murder, first-degree Manslaughter and two counts of seconddegree
Criminal Possession of a Weapon. He was arraigned today before Bronx Supreme
Court Justice Steven Barrett and remanded. He is due back in court on January 5, 2018. If
convicted of the top charge, he faces up to life in prison.
According to the investigation, on the night of August 29, 2017, Wilson fatally shot
Julio Velasquez, 24, after an argument ensued on the eighth floor hallway of a building in the
McKinley Houses in Morrisania. Velasquez was found with a gunshot wound to his chest and
later died at Lincoln Medical Center. The defendant and the victim had filed a civil lawsuit
against two 42nd Precinct detectives alleging they had been falsely arrested in 2014 for a
homicide case which was eventually dismissed after a witness recanted.
District Attorney Clark thanked
Detectives Matthew Crosson of the Bronx Homicide Squad and Frank Hernandez of the 42nd
Precinct Detective Squad for their assistance.
An indictment is an accusatory instrument and not proof of a defendant’s guilt.
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