2 Brooklyn men arrested for shooting death of drinking buddy dumped in the Pennsylvania woods and set ablaze: NYPD

Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News
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Police arrested two Brooklyn men for shooting a drinking buddy and then dumping his body in the Pennsylvania woods and setting him on fire, police said Thursday.

Luis Marroquin-Cerna, 27, and Rodolfo Lopez, 29, spent the night of June 18 at a bar with Rolando Blanco-Duarte, 32, police said.

At some point, the trio left the bar and went to a building on 41st St. in Sunset Park and got into an argument, and shot Blanco-Duarte twice, police said.

The suspects later drove the victim to a wooded area in Chester County, Pennsylvania, where they dumped the victim’s body and set it on fire, police said.

Authorities there later found the body and linked it to Brooklyn, with the NYPD notified on Sunday.

The suspects were arrested Tuesday afternoon and charged with murder.

Lopez, police said, lives in Coney Island, and is on probation for a DWI conviction, police said. His accomplice, who lives near the murder scene, has no prior arrests, and the victim, who lived in Bath Beach, had no record, police said.