A Queens highschool hoops staff which performs a sport every year in honor of a standout participant who was gunned down in 2019 hosted the memorial competitors for the ultimate time Saturday — with the late teen’s father suiting up for his son in what the household stated was the ultimate memorial contest for the boy.
Aamir Griffin was set to play on the Bayside faculty’s varsity staff earlier than he was fatally shot on Oct. 26, 2019. He was 14.
“He didn’t even get an opportunity to do all the nice issues that was coming for him. He was going to be somebody nice,” the teenager’s mother, Shanequa Griffin, 42, advised The Submit.
The annual memorial match-up held has been held every of the previous 5 years between Griffin’s Benjamin N. Cardozo Excessive College Judges, and rotating opponents.
“I haven’t been in a position to grieve correctly so I really feel like this ought to be my final memorial, so I can grieve myself as a mother,” she added, explaining the choice to carry the yearly memorial video games to an in depth.
On Saturday, because the Judges confronted off in opposition to the NYPD Blue Chips on the Baisley Park Homes in South Jamaica the place Griffin was killed, the teenager’s father, Warnell Wells, 42, subbed in to play in son’s honor whereas carrying a Cardozo #2 jersey — the identical as his son’s.
Griffin would’ve graduated in June and been attending faculty by now, “hopefully on a basketball scholarship,” stated Cardozo coach Ron Naclerio, who organized the memorial video games with NYPD Det. Tanya Duhaney.
Griffin’s killer, the reputed Cash World road gang member Sean Brown, opened hearth on the teenager whereas he was taking part in basketball after he mistook him for a rival gangbanger, Queens District Lawyer Melinda Katz’s workplace beforehand stated.
Brown fled to Los Angeles earlier than being busted there by the LA County’s sheriff deputies and was extradited again to the Large Apple in 2021.
In April, Brown was sentenced to 30 years in jail after pleading responsible to manslaughter, conspiracy and weapons fees in connection to the deadly taking pictures.
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