A 15-year-old boy was charged with second-degree homicide Thursday evening in connection to final week’s lethal capturing of one other teen in Harlem, authorities mentioned.
The youth was nabbed round 11:30 p.m., when officers on patrol acknowledged him from a needed poster because the suspect within the Oct. 24 deadly capturing of 16-year-old Clarence Jones, cops mentioned.
Jones was blasted within the torso round 1:37 a.m. at West 124 Road and Lenox Avenue, in accordance with the NYPD.
First responders rushed him to Harlem Hospital, the place he died.
Intestine-wrenching photographs from the scene present Jones’ father collapsing and crying out that his teenage son had been “taken” from him.
It’s unclear whether or not he witnessed the capturing or arrived later.
The NYPD had no info Friday on the motive for the teenager’s homicide, or whether or not the 2 boys knew one another.
Police didn’t launch the kids title due to his age, and prosecutors didn’t instantly reply about whether or not he could be tried as an grownup or a juvenile.
“We don’t find out about a goal. We don’t find out about nothing…All we all know is somebody killed our nephew,” Jones’ aunt, Desiree Murray, beforehand informed The Submit.
“He was a candy child, man, candy child……simply caught up within the fallacious, you understand, the fallacious crowd, no matter, however total, he was a very good child,” she added.
A stray bullet from the capturing additionally pierced the passenger facet window of a Lyft close by — narrowly lacking the motive force, who was injured by damaged glass.
The capturing marked the primary of 5 in as many days that took the lives of teenagers throughout the Large Apple, cops mentioned.
Among the many different teenagers killed within the violent stretch was Tristan Sanders, 15, shot within the chest on the grounds of the New York Metropolis Housing Authority’s Albany Homes on St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights Sunday evening, police mentioned.
Joshua Sparrow, 18, was gunned down Monday evening on Reverend James Well mannered Ave. within the Bronx, in accordance with cops.
Taearion Mungo, 16, was blasted within the chest Saturday outdoors one other NYCHA constructing in Fort Greene, authorities mentioned.
And Malachi Deberry, 15, took a lethal bullet to the pinnacle Friday on Lenox Street close to Rockaway Parkway in Brownsville.
No arrests have been made in any of these shootings.
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