A 26-year-old man was arrested for gunning down a man in Queens and then speeding off on a moped as the victim’s wife looked on in horror, cops said.
Luis Belis was apprehended in Georgia and charged with murder for the fatal shooting of Jair Javier Vinces-Cobena on March 13.
Vinces-Cobena, 36, was shot multiple times by the moped-riding gunman on 55th Ave., just around the corner from his 98th St. apartment in Corona, shortly before 8 p.m., according to law enforcement.
A NYPD spokeswoman said the suspect, who lives in Lawrenceville, Georgia, has no prior criminal record in New York City. It remains unclear what spurred the deadly shooting.
“I heard pop! pop! pop! It was fast,” a neighbor, who would only identify himself as Ray, told the Daily News. “I heard a girl say, ‘Oh, my God! Help! help!’”
Vinces-Cobena was shot once in the head and repeatedly throughout his body, cops said. Medics rushed him to Elmhurst Hospital, where he died.
“His wife saw the whole thing,” Luca Estrella, 42, owner of Estrella Auto Repairs around the corner from the shooting, said shortly after the shooting.
Estrella said Vinces-Cobena helped out at a pop-up car wash on the block, but a family member who declined to give his name said the victim didn’t work there.
“He was a hard worker,” said Estrella, who described Vinces-Cobena as a “pretty boy, with his hair always combed to the back.”
“I always saw him like a family man,” the repair shop owner said. “He always said hello to me. Always shook my hand.”