Illegal immigrant wanted on warrant now suspected in fatal shooting outside NYC building
By Social Links forJoe Marino and Social Links for Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
Published May 30, 2024, 6:47 p.m. ET
An illegal immigrant from Venezuela with a lengthy rap sheet is wanted for allegedly gunning down two people during a dispute outside a Bronx apartment building – while already being sought on a felony warrant.
Josue Ruben Silva, 21, who has already been busted half a dozen times this year on robbery, theft and gun charges, is now facing a murder rap following the early Friday morning shooting in Fordham Heights, police and law enforcement sources told The Post.
Silva, who skipped out on a Bronx gun case, is also suspected in a series of migrant moped robberies.
“We have no idea who they are, what they’ve done in their own countries, what the plan is for them now that they’re here,” one frustrated law enforcement source told The Post . “Who says they can’t graduate from stealing sunglasses to a double murder?
Accused killer Josue Ruben Silva.
Josue Ruben Silva, a 21-year-old Venezuelan immigrant, is wanted for allegedly gunning down two people in the Bronx.
“But maybe we’re gonna explain all that away too because somebody’s ‘a migrant,'” the source said. “Empathy can’t excuse away a double murder. We have to get our hands around this problem or it’s going to get its hands around us.”
