NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A man was taken into custody out of state for the deadly stabbing of a Queens dad in 2020, police said Tuesday.
Nathaniel Johnson, 57, was charged Monday with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.
Police told the Daily News that Johnson was arrested in Boston after he allegedly stabbed Romeo Bartley, 37.
The morning of June 7, 2020, Bartley, a father of five who resided down the block, was fatally stabbed in the chest inside an Astoria store near 8th Street and Astoria Boulevard, cops said.
Bartley was rushed to NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst but could not be saved.
An unnamed 34-year-old woman with Bartley was stabbed in the back but survived.
Police made their first arrest in the case more than a year later, on May 11, 2021, charging Tangerina Wright-Johnson, 58, with murder. It wasn't immediately clear what her role in the incident was.
Johnson, who lives near the crime scene, reportedly has seven prior arrests, the last in 1991 for drug possession. Police said Wright-Johnson lives in Lynbrook, New York, and has no prior arrests.
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