Two accused of killing boy near Brooklyn Children’s Museum – NBC New York (47)

NEW YORK – A 21-year-old man faces a litany of charges, including murder, in the Feb. 29 shooting death of a 13-year-old boy who was walking home from a basketball game at Barclays Center, police name

Jared (Jah Woo) McCauley, of Brooklyn, was arrested Wednesday on a 13-count indictment charging him with second-degree murder, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and first-degree reckless endangerment. in the death of Troy Gill. Sheik Koureichi, also 21, of Brooklyn, was indicted on the same charge on July 29. Both defendants were ordered to remain without bail and return to court on Friday.

Gill was hit four times near the Brooklyn Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, in the area of ​​Bergen Street and New York Avenue, around 10:30 p.m. on his way home from a Nets game. He lived about two blocks from the place.

Gill was reportedly killed by McCauley and Koureichi in the shootout. The district attorney’s office said he called his mother to tell her he had been shot.

After being shot, he ran down Bergen Street to Brooklyn Avenue, where police say he eventually collapsed on the street between Bergen Street and St. Marks Ave. He was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he died.

Gill was shot in the chest, back and twice in the right arm, according to police.

The district attorney also said that shortly before 11 p.m., McCauley and Koureichi drove in a white Jeep to eastern New York, where they shot at the front door of a rival gang member, Drench.

McCauley and Koureichi were reportedly looking for rival gang members when the boy was killed. The two shootings that night, according to the district attorney, were in retaliation for the kidnapping and beating of McCauley, a rapper associated with the group Woo, earlier in the day.

McCauley was allegedly lured to the Bronx, forced into a car, beaten, stripped and then removed from the car, the district attorney said. That incident was recorded and posted on social media.

“As stated, these defendants went on a wave of vengeance that took the life of a child,” said District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. “This type of senseless gang violence takes too many lives, including children, and my office, along with the New York City Police, aims to solve each of these shootings and those responsible for them.