Gunman Nabbed Year After Shooting 23-Year-Old Outside Long Island Club, Police Say

A suspected gunman has been arrested more than a year after he allegedly shot a man outside a Long Island club.

Joseph Llapa, age 22, is accused of shooting another man outside a club on West Main Street in Smithtown in July 2022.
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09/30/2023 1:30 p.m.

Joseph Llapa, age 22, of Bay Shore, was taken into custody Thursday, Sept. 28, in connection with a July 2022 shooting outside the Smithtown Social Bar & Lounge, located in Smithtown on West Main Street.

Suffolk County Police said it was shortly before 4 a.m. July 3, 2022, when Llapa shot a 23-year-old man in the arm as the victim got into the passenger seat of a car.

The victim was taken by ambulance to South shore University Hospital in Bay Shore and treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Nobody else was injured.

Police did not speculate on a possible motive for the shooting.

Officers arrested Llapa at around 9:30 p.m. Thursday night in Bay Shore on suspicion of assault and reckless endangerment.

He was scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Friday, Sept. 29.

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