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The suspect who allegedly gunned down a man and wounded his brother outside a Bronx housing complex was busted early Wednesday, cops said. 

Kai Johnson, 26, was nabbed at 1:30 a.m. for allegedly shooting Price Tunstall, 24, and his 24-year-old brother Malik Tunstall, in front of a Taylor Avenue building at NYCHA’s Monroe Houses around 7:20 p.m. Tuesday, according to authorities and police sources.

Price Tunstall was taken to Jacobi Medical Center and pronounced dead, authorities said.

His brother was taken to the same hospital in critical condition. 

Johnson was charged with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, assault, and weapons possession counts, authorities said.

He was released on parole last October in connection to a second-degree attempted murder charge from 2016, state corrections records show.

Police found him while canvassing the area after the shooting, cops said.

“Within hours, @NYPD43Pct detectives had the 26 y/o shooter in custody — he was already on parole for att. murder,” NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea tweeted. “Great job by @NYPDDetectives & local Neighborhood Coordination Officers — working together to swiftly take this criminal off our streets.”

The motive for the shooting remained unclear Wednesday.


  Price Tunstall was taken to Jacobi Medical Center and pronounced dead. Facebook Price Tunstall was taken to Jacobi Medical Center and pronounced dead. Facebook

The Tunstall brothers are affiliated with the Monroe Houses Crew gang, which operates out of the housing complex, according to cops and sources. 

The duo was busted in January 2020 on a federal narcotics conspiracy charge as part of an 11-member gang takedown at the Monroe Houses, prosecutors have said.


  Malik Tunstall was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Facebook Malik Tunstall was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Facebook

Members of the gang sold drugs, committed robberies, shot at rivals, possessed illegal firearms and one man was even accused of a murder, according to Manhattan federal prosecutors.

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