Man faces murder charge after victim dies 30 years later

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NEW YORK — A New York man who served three years in jail for shooting a teenager in 1973 has been arrested for murder following his victim’s death more than 30 years after the event, prosecutors said yesterday.

Ralph Alini, 54, was arrested on Thursday and held in custody prior to his formal arraignment on murder charges, said Sandy Silverstein, spokesman for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.

Alini and another man were convicted of shooting Jose Colon, then 15, during a riot between Hispanics and Italians in Brooklyn in 1973. Colon was left paralysed by the incident. snip

However, when Colon died last year at the age of 47, medical examiners determined that his death was the result of the shooting more than 30 years ago, and so Alini was re-arrested.