Suspects Arrested in Tayshana Murphy Murder Case
September 21, 2011 5:15pm
Robert Cartagena, 20, and Tyshawn Brockington, 21, are suspected of shooting Harlem basketball star Tayshana Murphy. (NYPD)
By Murray Weiss and Jeff Mays
DNAinfo Staff
HARLEM — Two men wanted for gunning down Harlem basketball star Tayshana Murphy in her apartment building on Sept. 11 were arrested in South Carolina, sources said.
Tyshawn Brockington, 21, and Robert Cartagena, 20, allegedly shot Murphy three times — in the chest, hip and arm — after chasing her down in the Grant Houses. They were picked up Wednesday afternoon in Columbia, S.C., where one of the men apparently had a girlfriend, sources said.
The men were together at the time they were picked up, sources said.
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