SUSPECT IN THE FATAL SHOOTING OF 2 IN THE BRONX SURRENDERS

Bronx man sought by the police in connection with the shooting deaths
of a 5-year-old boy and a 25- year-old man turned himself in yesterday
and was being questioned last night at a Bronx precinct house, the
police said.

The man, Paul Stan, 21, was accompanied by a lawyer when he
surrendered at the 52nd Precinct in the Bronx less than two days after
the man and the boy were caught in the cross-fire of a gun battle
between two men at 6 p.m. Monday.

No charges were immediately filed against Mr. Stan, who had been
identified on Tuesday by Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik as a
suspect in the shootings.

Investigators have said they believed that Mr. Stan fired the fatal
shots.

The authorities had unleashed a broad dragnet, with Mayor Rudolph W.
Giuliani announcing a $12,000 reward for information and several
police units across the city searching for Mr. Stan.

The two shooting victims, Romel Jenkins, 5, and Sergio Camargo, 25,
were killed in a barrage of gunfire near the intersection of Rosewood
Street and White Plains Road that recalled the random shootings by
drug dealers and gangs in the 1980's and early 1990's. Investigators
found 18 shell casings at the scene on Monday.

The police had released a photograph of Mr. Stan. They said he was
wanted on other charges, including assault. In interviews yesterday,
residents and merchants on the block where the shootings took place
said that they had seen Mr. Stan's photograph, and recognized him as
one of a group of menacing young men who had been hanging out on the
block for two years and were thought to be dealing drugs.

Several of those interviewed declined to be identified by name, saying
they feared retaliation. But all maintained that drug dealing and
shootings had increased recently.

"You hear the stories all the time," said Joe Salerno, 43, a lifelong
resident of the neighborhood. "In the last couple weeks, it has taken
a turn for the worse. The police have been coming constantly."

Others on the block said they had seen Mr. Stan, who also went by the
alias Kenroy Hinds, with six or seven other men, all in their 20's.
They said the men were known to be selling crack cocaine and
marijuana, and were thought to have threatened merchants and residents
who might provide information about their activities to the police.