A 12-year-old boy is dealing with manslaughter prices for the capturing demise of a 14-year-old teen in Brooklyn on Sunday, police mentioned.
Police sources mentioned the 14-year-old, Jasai Man, and his cousin had been taking part in with a gun in a fifth ground condo on the Howard Homes when the teenager was shot within the chest.
Medics picked up the teenager and rushed him to Brookdale College Hospital, the place he was finally pronounced useless.
Neighbors mentioned the younger sufferer was a very good child who might typically be discovered with associates on the close by basketball courts.
“It’s unhappy that youngsters can’t even come exterior and play, children cant even be inside and play,” one neighbor mentioned.
The weekend capturing occurred steps from the place a 30-year-old man was shot and killed simply two weeks in the past.
“Now you bought a 14-year-old child concerned in a capturing. The place these guys coming from? And it is advisable do one thing with these ghosts weapons which are operating round right here,” the person mentioned.
The newest information supplied by the NYPD exhibits a lethal uptick within the 73rd precinct the place Sunday’s Brownsville capturing came about. Up to now this yr, 12 murders have been reported, that is in comparison with 4 in the identical time final yr.
The 12-year-old, not recognized due to his age, faces prices of manslaughter, prison neglect murder and prison possession of a weapon, in accordance with the NYPD.
