The police announced the arrest of Keith Phoenix, the second suspect in the murder of an Ecuadorian immigrant late last year. The NYPD had released a photo of Phoenix taken at the RFK Bridge toll, "giggling to his heart's content - just 19 minutes after he allegedly beat a man to death with a baseball bat," and offered a $22,000 reward. His suspected accomplice, Hakim Scott, turned himself in on Wednesday. The suspects attacked the late Jose Sucuzhañay and his brother Romel when they saw them walking arm-in-arm along Bushwick Avenue and believed that they were homosexuals.
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