By Eileen Buckley
Buffalo, NY – Buffalo Police have made an arrest in a West Side homicide.
Buffalo Police say they have charged 17-year-old Joshua Nieves-Castro with second-degree murder. He is accused in connection with the murder of 21-year-old Jay Amelio Nieves on May 27th on Vermont Street. Nieves was shot to death. The two are not related.
Nieves-Castro was taken into custody Saturday afternoon near West Delavan Avenue and Grant Street. He has also been charged with criminal possession of a loaded firearm. ,*The family of Jay Nieves defended his friend in a bar fight hours before he was fatally shot. Police believe Nieves-Castro tracked him down allegedly shot the victim after losing the fight.