A gunman was charged with two seemingly unconnected Bronx murders just six days apart – including the shooting of a Papa John’s worker during an apparent mugging, cops said Tuesday.
Jailyn Wagner was charged with second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon in connection to each case after members of the NYPD’s Violent Felony Squad descended on his home Monday morning, police said.
In the first murder, just before 3 a.m. July 23, Wagner is accused of shooting 28-year-old Idriss Cherif El Farissy, 28, in the head outside his East 176th Street apartment building in Crotona Park East, authorities said.
El Farissy was returning home from his delivery driver shift and had just parked his car when he encountered the alleged shooter, police said.
“He didn’t even get a chance to open the gate,” one neighbor who only identified himself as Joe told The Post at the time. “By the time I came out, the wife was there and the police were trying to revive him on the sidewalk.”
The callous shooter rifled through the victim’s pockets before making his getaway on a Citi Bike, according to cops and sources.
El Farissy – who was originally from Morocco – was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
He had only been working at the pizza joint for about eight months, according to his colleague Leslie Pozo, 29, a cashier.
During his short tenure there, he’d already won “employee of the month” twice, she recalled.
He had planned to go on vacation to the Dominican Republic with his wife two weeks after his life was tragically taken, according to Pozo.
“I don’t understand this sort of violence towards someone who didn’t have any issues with anybody,” Pozo said. “This was truly an act of pure violence. He didn’t have no issues with anybody.”
Then the evening of July 29, Wagner allegedly shot 39-year-old Roman Martinez multiple times in the head, police said.
Martinez was found unconscious inside of an RV mobile trailer on East 176th Street near Mohegan Avenue just before 8 p.m., cops and sources said.
Martinez, who lived about a block away from the spot he’d parked the camper, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The motive for that deadly shooting remained unclear Tuesday.
Martinez’s cousin Javier Bruno told News 12 at the time that his relative was sleeping in the camper when he was killed.
“I’m destroyed right now,” Bruno said. “He was a good guy. He didn’t have problems with nobody and he didn’t deserve that.”
Wagner’s arraignment was still pending late Tuesday afternoon.
He has no prior arrests in the city, police said.
