Suspect arrested in deadly FDNY road rage incident
A suspect wanted in connection to the road rage murder of an FDNY firefighter in the Bath Beach area was taken into custody on Tuesday, Dec. 11.
According to the U.S. Marshals Service, the New York/New Jersey Task Force and NYPD arrested 29-year-old Joseph Desmond in a motel in New Jersey. Desmond was wanted in connection to the death of 33-year-old Faizal Coto.
According to authorities, Coto — a three-year member of the FDNY who was also a rapper, using the stage name FAIYA — was killed on Sunday, Dec. 9 at around 4:47 a.m. following a fender-bender between Coto’s car and another vehicle on the eastbound Belt Parkway at the Fourth Avenue ramp.