Bronx chilly case: 42-year-old Ahmet Gashi arrested in 2006 homicide of Kemal Kolenovic that occurred on New Yr’s Eve

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BRONX, New York (WABC) — Police have made an arrest in an almost 18-year-old chilly case homicide that occurred within the Bronx on New Yr’s Eve in 2006.

Ahmet Gashi, 42, was arrested and charged with second-degree homicide on Friday.

Gashi, who’s from Serbia, was arrested in connection to the homicide of Kemal Kolenovic, an expert center weight boxer who was 28 years outdated on the time of his demise on December 31, 2006.

On that day, police responded to a 911 name for a pedestrian struck close to Crescent Avenue and Belmont Avenue round 4:35 a.m.

As New York ready to ring in 2007, a gaggle of males received drunk at a bar within the Belmont part. The struggle spilled out on the road and have become a brawl.

Police say Gashi on the time of the incident jumped in his SUV and hit the gasoline.

Kolenovic had been minding his personal enterprise that evening and was a part of a gaggle of people that tried to interrupt up the struggle, till police say Gashi plowed into them.

Kolenovic flew headfirst right into a tree. EMS responded and took him to St. Barnabas Hospital, the place he was pronounced useless.

Gashi fled the scene and disappeared to the Balkans in jap Europe.

Earlier this yr, authorities in Kosovo positioned him underneath arrest.

U.S. Marshals organized extradition, and earlier than he knew it, Gashi was again at JFK Airport.

On Friday evening, he was on his option to central reserving within the Bronx.

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