Macon Extradited in 2006 Murder of Bethlehem Teen

Bethlehem Police today formally arrested a man they say is as responsible for the December 2006 death of a city teen-ager as the man who pulled the trigger.

Daniel Tyrice Macon, 25, was being held at the Warren County Correctional Center in Belvidere, N.J. He is accused in the murder of Kevin Muzila, a 15-year-old boy who was shot after answering the door to his family’s W. Union Boulevard apartment a week before Christmas.

According to police, the shooter, Paul Serrano had been ordered by Macon to shoot a rival drug dealer living at 52 W. Union Boulevard. Macon even gave him the gun, police said.

But Serrano, already serving a life sentence for the crime, mistakenly knocked on 54 W. Union, where Kevin Muzila lived with his family.

Law enforcement officials that they had filed charges against Macon as a result of the work of a Northampton County grand jury and continued police investigation. Extradition from New Jersey came today.

Macon, who is from Bethlehem, was arraigned before District Judge Patricia Romig-Passaro on charges of criminal homicide, solicitation to commit murder and criminal conspiracy to commit murder. The law in Pennsylvania is that no bail will be set for a homicide case.

Police also filed separate drugs and weapons charges against Macon as a result of a search warrant served at his home at 620 Montclair Ave.

There, police seized an amount of heroin and marijuana, a digital scale, cell phones, ammunition, a loaded .38 caliber revolver and a 12-gauge shotgun with the barrel sawed down.

As Macon is a convicted felon, having pleaded guilty to drug violations in Oklahoma in 2004, police also charged him with possession with intent to deliver heroin, two counts of illegal possession of firearms and carrying a prohibited offensive weapon.

He was arraigned on those charges in front of District Judge Nancy Matos-Gonzalez, who set bail at $250,000.