Overview

• Detectives charged Odenthal with murder on Aug. 19 in the long-unsolved shooting, with a Bronx arraignment pending.
• He remains in federal custody in West Virginia following a 2023 drug-conspiracy arrest noted in prison records.
• Diaz was fatally struck near Boston Road and East Tremont Avenue as she carried food for her four children and was pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital.
• Police say the gunfire was meant for a nearby teenager who was grazed and later treated at Jacobi Medical Center.
• Officials have not disclosed the evidence linking Odenthal to the slaying, and the NYPD and mayor’s office had previously offered a $20,000 reward for information.