Murder Charge in Toddler Shooting

Witnesses were able to pick Nicholas Morris out of a lineup related to the Easter shooting death of 2 year old David Pacheco Jr. yesterday, and Morris was charged with two counts of murder. Police are still looking for Ronneil "Burger" Gilliam, who they believe was with Morris when they got into a fight with another group of young people in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx. The NY Times has two sides of Morris, who turned himself in on Monday for the accidental crime: Friends and neighbors were shocked by the crime, noting that he worked with kids in an after school program while the Bronx DA sees Morris' history of arrests, though for petty offenses. At any rate, police had to escort Morris to the station under high security, as onlookers yelled at him angrily.

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