A Bay Shore man who authorities said fled to Miami after allegedly killing another resident last month at a home in the hamlet where he rented a room is back in Suffolk County and facing a murder charge, District Attorney Ray Tierney announced.

In a statement Thursday on the indictment of Darwin Josue Maldonado Vanegas, 31, Tierney described the crime as alleged a "brutal murder." 

Maldonado Vanegas pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and other charges related to the April 3 fatal shooting of Daniel Nunez-Hernandez, 24, Tierney said.

Suffolk police officers responding about 11:20 p.m. to a 911 call to the home on West Lakeland Street found Nunez-Hernandez with multiple gunshot wounds, Newsday reported at that time. 

Police also recovered two 9 mm shell casings, Tierney's office said Thursday in an accompanying news release.

A Brentwood Legion Ambulance paramedic pronounced Nunez Hernandez dead at the scene.

Maldonado Vanegas then "allegedly fled New York and withdrew a substantial amount of United States currency from his bank account," the release continues.

He allegedly obtained a new cellphone in Atlantic City before fleeing to Miami, according to the release.

An investigation revealed that Maldonado Vanegas and Nunez Hernandez were two of several tenants renting rooms in the Bay Shore house, according to the district attorney. Records allegedly placed Vanegas Maldonado in the home about the same time witnesses reported hearing gunshots coming from the basement.

Other tenants of the Bay Shore home discovered Nunez Hernandez's body in the basement when they returned home later that evening, Tierney said.

Police in Miami and Suffolk Homicide Squad detectives took Maldonado Vanegas into custody on May 7.

"This defendant allegedly executed Daniel Nunez-Hernandez and then thought he could flee Suffolk County to avoid culpability," Tierney said in a statement, "but he was clearly wrong."

On Thursday, Maldonado Vanegas pleaded not guilty before Acting Supreme Court Justice Richard Horowitz at Suffolk County Court in Riverhead to charges of second-degree murder, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, second-degree harassment and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

Tierney's office did not provide information about Maldonado Vanegas's time in custody in Florida or when he was brought back to Suffolk County.

Donald Rollock, Maldonado Vanegas’s defense attorney, said his client's case is still in the discovery process.

"It doesn’t sound like anyone saw anything, so we’re going to look into it," Rollock told Newsday in a telephone interview Thursday. "Right now it’s in the early stages of the case and I will defend him properly."

Horowitz "ordered Maldonado Vanegas remanded without bail" as his case proceeds, according to Tierney’s office.

Maldonado Vanegas is scheduled to return to court June 17. He faces up to 25 years to life in prison convicted on the murder charge.