A New York City parks worker, Elijah Mitchell, was arrested for fatally shooting a Venezuelan migrant in a Brooklyn park. The worker had a confrontation with the victim days before the incident.
The arrest of a city employee in the murder of a migrant added a surprising twist to the tensions surrounding recent shootings near migrant shelters.
The Parks Department suspended Elijah Mitchell and is moving to terminate his employment. Efforts to reach his lawyer were unsuccessful.
Speculation of migrant gang involvement in the back-to-back shootings was refuted after detectives connected the incidents to the arrested parks worker.
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