MANLIUS — Local police are currently investigating the fatal shooting of a man in Manlius that occurred over the weekend.
The Manlius Police have been actively investigating the circumstances surrounding the homicide with the assistance of local, state and federal partners, including the Town of DeWitt Police Department, the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office, the Onondaga County District Attorney’s Office, the United States Marshall Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
At press time, the agencies were still seeking to locate the person of interest in the shooting, identified by police as 48-year-old Radu Zumar Turner, a 6-foot-tall black male weighing between 160 and 180 pounds.
Turner’s last known address is 205 Elmbrook Drive in the village of Manlius, and he was last known to be operating a dark gray 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee with a New York license plate reading LHX-5697, police said.
Just after 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 6, members of the Town of Manlius Police Department were dispatched to the 200 block of Elmbrook Drive near Garrett Drive in the village of Manlius in response to a reported shots fired complaint and a motor vehicle crash.
Upon their arrival, members of the agency located an adult male with gunshot wounds in the vehicle that had crashed.
The victim, identified as Kenquon Davis, 39, of Syracuse, was transported by Manlius firefighters and EMS personnel to SUNY Upstate Hospital, where he died from his injuries.
Investigation has revealed that the two individuals are related to each other, with Turner being Davis’ uncle. They were engaged in a verbal altercation in front of that Elmbrook Drive residence just prior to the shooting, police said. The victim was attempting to drive off when he was struck by gunfire, at which point he crashed the vehicle he was steering into a tree on Garrett Drive.
On Monday, April 7 at approximately 6:30 p.m., Manlius Police responded to the Harborside Manor Apartment Complex in Liverpool in regard to a public tip that was received concerning the location of the vehicle of interest in the investigation.
Officers located and secured that Jeep, and the police have since obtained an arrest warrant with charges for murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree.
Should anyone have any further details relevant to the incident or information regarding the whereabouts of the suspect, they are told to not approach and to contact 911 for a law enforcement response.
The Town of Manlius Police Department can also be contacted through the confidential TIPS line by phone at 315-682-8673 or by email at [email protected]
