Alberto Cirino

The life of Alberto Cirino, a 23-year-old Hispanic/Latino man from the Syracuse suburb of Liverpool, was cut short on the morning of November 5, 2024. A father to a young daughter, Cirino had a passion for boxing and rapping. Around 9 a.m. that day, Syracuse Police officers responded to a call about a person down in a parking lot at 320 W. Taylor Street on the city's Near Westside. They found Cirino suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his chest. He received emergency medical care at the scene before being rushed by ambulance to University Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.

The Syracuse Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division immediately launched a homicide investigation. By reviewing footage from multiple cameras throughout the city, detectives were able to identify a suspect in the fatal shooting. The investigation pointed to 39-year-old Wilfrey Carrasquillo of Syracuse. Law enforcement tracked Carrasquillo's movements across state lines in the days that followed.

On November 8, 2024, just three days after the shooting, members of the Boston Police Department's Fugitive Apprehension Unit located and arrested Carrasquillo in Boston, Massachusetts. He was taken into custody without incident and held while awaiting extradition back to New York.

After being returned to Syracuse, Wilfrey Carrasquillo was arraigned in Syracuse City Court on November 19, 2024. He was charged with second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in connection with Alberto Cirino's death. In June 2026, the case went to trial, and a jury convicted Carrasquillo of second-degree murder. The following month, in July 2026, he was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison.