It took seven years but the parents of a 2-year-old boy killed by a stray bullet finally got to look the fiend suspected of firing the shot in the eye.
Darryl Hemphill, 34, was nabbed in North Carolina and hauled into Bronx Criminal Court after DNA evidence lifted from his shirt linked him to the 2006 Easter Sunday shooting of little David Pacheco Jr. as the boy sat in a child seat in his mom’s van en route to church.
“Not guilty,” Hemphill declared during his arraignment yesterday on murder charges.
Sitting alongside relatives, David’s mother, Joanne Sanabria-Pacheco, lowered her head and sobbed as Assistant DA Adam Oustatcher described the senseless shooting that began after a fistfight at West Tremont and Harrison avenues.
Hemphill, who got the worst of the tussle, came back with a gun and opened fire.