by David Greene
The Bronx could not escape a series of shootings that happened throughout the city, with the borough’s only weekend shooting happening in Kingsbridge.
It’s at 2766 University Avenue by West 195th Street that police were called in the early morning hours of June 29 to find a man shot to death on the street just a short distance from his home.
Police say the victim, Roderick Romney of Reservoir Avenue, was found with a bullet-wound in his chest and was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
One police source said “acting on the description provided by a 911 caller, members of the 50th Precinct immediately imitated a canvas and the suspect was apprehended in the immediate area of the shooting.”
Officers apprehended and later charged Jason Delgado, 29, of 2761 University Avenue. Cops would also located the .38 revolver that they believe he used in the killing.
A second crime scene was set-up by police outside of 2805 University Avenue, a residential building that also houses the offices of the Kingsbridge Heights Neighborhood Improvement Association, which was closed at the time. Detectives reviewed surveillance video from that building as well as other buildings in the area for possible images of the assailant.
Delgado was questioned for nearly 13 hours at the 50th Precinct before he was charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon.
A neighbor of Romney’s said that the victim had lived in the building with his mother and father for over 20 years and that the victim and his killer had been friends.
One resident of the block looking to drive to church, looked out at the shutdown street and the crime scene and reported, “This is going to mess me up. I was going to church, but the police say my car is parked in a crime scene.”
Friends would eventually pick up the resident and drive him to church.
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I Don not know the victim personally, but I have seen him a few times. & everytime I did, he was always serious and calm and minding his own business. I always just wondered to myself everytime i saw him, who is this guy and why does he walk like that. I liked how he walk. But nevertheless, the issue is that this block has become such a downgrade to what it use to be. I live in the brown building that is seen in the photo above, and people heard the shits from the gun, and a friend of my mother saw the dead body from her window. I didn’t know nothing, I received a text from my friend saying that the police shoot down the whole street if, everything is ok. But its so sad, I can see the blood stain on the street from where he died. People are now dying over little stuff, what will happen next. Lord have mercy. & its sad that the guy who had to go to church, had his car near the victim when he died. Lord have mercy.
Bring stop and frisk back!