Rapper Remy Ma’s 23-year-old son has been charged over the 2021 fatal shooting of a man in Queens, the NYPD said Wednesday.
Jayson Scott and another man, Richard Swygert, 22, were nabbed on first-degree murder charges Tuesday night — three years after 43-year-old Darius Guillebeaux was gunned down in a brazen broad daylight attack.
The victim was blasted in the head and chest when the shooting broke out at the intersection of 148th Street and Rockaway Boulevard in Springfield Gardens back on June 7, 2021.
Cops are still probing a motive for the slaying, police sources said.
At the time of the shooting, police had said they believed a dispute may have preceded the bloodshed.
Just eight months before being shot dead, Guillebeaux was among the dozens indicted by New York Attorney General Letitia James as part of a large-scale drug trafficking probe dubbed “Operation Heat Wave.”
As part of that operation, 54 perps were charged with funneling heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine to Jefferson County in upstate New York.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Scott or Swygert had any prior connection to Guillebeaux in the lead up to his slaying.
In addition to the murder rap, both men were also slapped with criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment charges, cops said.
Scott’s mom, whose real name is Reminisce Smith, is a Grammy nominated star who got her start with Fat Joe’s group, Terror Squad, back in the 90s.
The 44-year-old Bronx native, who has a slew of violent arrests to her name, once served six years in prison over the near-fatal shooting of a friend outside a Manhattan nightclub in 2007.
Scott has been in custody since May 9 in a separate gun case. He’s been held on $500,000 bail on criminal possession of a weapon charges, officials said.
He’s expected to be arraigned on the murder rap in Queens court next week.