Police are asking the public to help find a man they have identified as a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Bronx Uber driver on New Year’s Day, the city’s first reported homicide of the year.
NYPD officials said 24-year-old Ehinel Troncoso is wanted in connection with 55-year-old Issa Mbolo-Isac’s death as the driver finished up a long New Year’s Eve shift behind the wheel. The shooting took place around 7 a.m. on Jan. 1 near Morris Avenue and the Cross Bronx Expressway in Mount Hope, authorities said.
Mbolo-Isac had just spoken to his brother by phone and was on his way to a mosque when two men approached his vehicle and tried to force him out, according to Fernando Mateo, chair of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers. When Mbolo-Isac tried to drive away, the men shot at the car. The NYPD said he was struck in his head and died at the scene…