{"id":20684,"date":"2025-10-29T02:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20684\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T02:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:19:07","slug":"nyc-teen-busted-in-fatal-shooting-of-autistic-man-as-grieving-sister-reveals-tragic-final-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20684\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC teen busted in fatal shooting of autistic man as grieving sister reveals tragic final moments"},"content":{"rendered":"

A teen was busted in the fatal shooting of<\/a> an autistic man during a botched robbery at a Bronx park \u2014 as his grieving sister revealed new details of his tragic final hours.<\/p>\n

Luis Castillo, 19, was hit with murder and related charges Monday more than a month after his alleged accomplice, Axel Martinez, 20 was captured by cops in connection with the slaying of 26-year-old Ronell Marte last month, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

Marte was shot in the chest<\/a> inside the Starlight Park along East 174th Street around 2:50 a.m. on Sept. 4 and was later found by a biker lying in a pool of vomit and blood, police and law enforcement sources said. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\"LuisLuis Castillo, 19, was arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of Ronell Marte, 26, an autistic man, during a botched robbery at Starlight Park that occurred last month. Dean Moses<\/p>\n

His sister, Nelroby Marte, said her brother was on his way home from his job at an Amazon warehouse in Hunts Point when he took a shortcut through the park.<\/p>\n

\u201cRonnell was the least deserving person for this to happen to. He was walking home from work\u2026 He was working the late shift and got out at 11 p.m.,\u201d she told The Post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I guess he didn\u2019t think of the dangers of walking around the park at that time. He had autism but he was very high functioning.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople who don\u2019t have malice in their heart, they don\u2019t think anyone else has malice in their heart. They don\u2019t think anyone else is going to do something to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two suspects allegedly wanted to rob Marte\u2019s cellphone \u2014 leading up to the deadly shooting<\/a>, sources and his family said.<\/p>\n

Marte had been attacked by a group on the 2 train last year during an attempted stickup, which led the victim\u2019s mother to instruct her son to leave his wallet at home.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing he had was his phone and that\u2019s what he took,\u201d Nelroby Marte said. <\/p>\n

\"RonellMarte was fatally shot in the chest at the Bronx park at approximately 2:50 a.m. on Sept. 4 and was later found by a biker lying in a pool of vomit and blood. GoFundMe<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom always told him to leave his wallet at home. That day we found his wallet at home. He listened to my mom.\u201d<\/p>\n

He will be remembered as a loving family member and talented artist who wanted to be a graphic designer one day.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was autistic so he didn\u2019t really have the ability to say, \u2018Oh, I love you or I care for you.\u2019 But he always showed it with his actions,\u201d Nelroby said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Martinez is accused of pulling the trigger while Castillo was allegedly part of the robbery, sources said. <\/p>\n

About two hours before the shooting, Castillo and Martinez allegedly robbed a 21-year-old man as he walked on the Cross Bronx Expressway around 12:30 earlier that morning, sources said.<\/p>\n

Martinez was arrested on Sept. 18. <\/p>\n

The pair are facing murder, manslaughter, robbery and criminal possession of a weapon charges, officials said.<\/p>\n

Castillo was remanded Tuesday and Martinez was expected to appear in Bronx court Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teen was busted in the fatal shooting of an autistic man during a botched robbery at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,9,24,56,63,65,64,3980,129,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-20684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-metro","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-shootings","16":"tag-the-bronx","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}