NYC woman nabbed at JFK airport for role in Harlem murder
A woman wanted by authorities for her role in a revenge murder in Harlem was nabbed at JFK Airport, police said Friday.
Tynika Johnson, 30, played a part in the Feb. 27 shooting death of Charles Buckner, 38, who was behind the wheel of a parked silver Mercedes-Benz at Fifth Ave. near W. 138th when he was struck down in a hail of bullets, according to the NYPD.
She was charged with murder and weapons possession.
Buckner’s 24-year-old cousin, who was in the car with him, was wounded in his left arm and made it on his own to Harlem Hospital, where he was treated and later released.
Johnson, police said, was involved in the murder in some way, though further details were not immediately available. The gun was fired by someone still being sought.
The hit was retaliation for an earlier shooting of a man in a club in Mott Haven, the Bronx. Buckner appears to have played some role in that crime, police said, and Johnson, who was there at the time, has a connection to the victim.
Johnson, who lives in Harlem, has one prior arrest, for grand larceny. Buckner, who lived not far from where he was killed, had 14 arrests on his record, including for attempted murder in 1999. He may have also been involved in another non-fatal shooting, in 2001, police said.
Buckner was paroled in June 2020 after serving three years for an attempted conspiracy conviction, according to records. Before that, he served more than two years for a weapons conviction and was paroled in December 2013.
