Josue Santos-Rivera
AMSTERDAM, N.Y. -- Amsterdam Police Chief Thomas Brownell called it "a case of jealousy out of control."
Police said Amsterdam's first murder since 2001 was over a woman.
Josue Santos-Rivera and Gilbert Muniz both face charges in the murder of Jose Payano, 35, known to many as "Jochi."
Gilbert Muniz
Police said Santos-Rivera and Muniz confronted Payano outside a Lark Street garage. The confrontation was about a woman Payano was seeing, who was also Muniz's ex-girlfriend. The argument escalated and Payano was shot five times.
"One was to his head, the other four were to his torso," Amsterdam Police Lt. Thomas DiMezza said.
Two men have been charged in connection with a fatal shooting in Amsterdam -- and it appears the murder was over a woman. Our Mark Repasky has the details.
Three and a half hours later, police picked up the alleged shooter, Santos-Rivera, at his apartment in Amsterdam and charged him with murder. Muniz turned himself in shortly after. He faces one count of conspiracy to commit murder.
Both are in Montgomery County Jail without bail.
"I didn't see any tears," DiMezza said. "I think they thought they could talk their way out of it."
Jose Payano
"The speed at which this investigation concluded is something to be proud of," Brownell said.
Word of the investigation spread so fast, one man who shared a name with one of the suspects, but had no involvement in this case, even turned himself in to state police.
"We had people turn themselves in who weren't wanted for anything," DiMezza said.
A day after the shooting, people who grew up with Payano, came from as far away as Florida to a memorial down the street from where he was killed. Alongside them, family and friends who were preparing to celebrate the birthday of his son. Now they are preparing for the funeral of a father.