Port Authority cops at JFK Airport today arrested the jilted construction worker wanted for shooting his former supervisor at a Hell’s Kitchen construction site, authorities said.
Robert Sasso, 32, who is also wanted for a murder in Queens, was applying for a construction job on JFK property when he was spotted by another worker, police sources said.
Seven year PAPD veteran cop, Michael Farley, was patrolling the Local 15 training school on Lefferts Boulevard and Nassau Expressway this morning around 9 a.m. because he knew that the suspect from Sunday’s shooting was a member of the construction union, sources said.
Coincidentally, Sasso was at the trailer, putting in his name for a heavy equipment operator position when a union worker recognized him and alerted Port Authority cops, said a spokesman for the Port Authority.
PAPD collared Sasso and turned him over to the NYPD, who is questioning him at the 109th precinct stationhouse, sources said.
“I know what you’re talking about but you have the wrong guy,” Sasso told cops during the arrest, according to sources.
The perp, who was fired from the construction site on Ninth Avenue and West 49th Street, showed back up there Sunday night and sunk a bullet into former boss, Louis Lamburini’s shoulder.
The victim, 56, was taken to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition.
Cops are questioning Sasso for both the Hell’s Kitchen shooting and the Queens murder, sources said.