United States: The police officials reported the arrest of an 18-year-old guy accused of fatally shooting a minor in a Queen’s subway vehicle amid a dispute between two groups of teenagers on Saturday in New York City.
A day after the killing of Jayjon Burnett, 15, who was travelling the southbound a train in Far Rockaway on Friday shortly before 4 p.m. when he was shot at least once in the chest, Keyondre Russell was brought into custody, according to police. According to the authorities, Mr Russell has been accused of murder and unlawful possession of a firearm.
The victim was taken off the train and deposited on the platform of the Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue subway station, according to Chief Jason K. Wilcox, director of the Transit Bureau, who announcement this at a press conference on Friday. Two Transit Bureau patrolling cops came to the victim’s help there.
Along with this, at 4:40 p.m., he was declared dead at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in Queens after being transported there.
The dispute that resulted in the shooting and whether Mr Russell and Jayjon, who are both from Rockaway, knew investigators did not further discuss one another on Saturday.
“The investigation is suggesting that this was not a random act of violence,” Chief Wilcox stated on Friday in New York City.
He added to the statement, “We have seen a lot this year, where disputes quickly lead to verbal arguments, and then quickly lead to physical disputes — confrontations that unfortunately have led to violence. So we’ve seen that again.”
There have been eight killings in the subway, including the one on Friday night, since the beginning of the year, says Chief Wilcox.
In addition, there were about six between January 1 as well as October 9, 2021, as per the police statistics.
The deadly shooting that took place on Friday was the third homicide to take place in a subway since September 30.
Furthermore, according to a criminal complaint, on that day, police discovered a guy with stab wounds to his neck, back, chest, and head in the Atlantic Avenue subway station. Tommy Bailey, the victim, was brought to Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn, where doctors declared him dead.
