Dad of kid slain in ’94 calls for new inquiry

A BROOKLYN dad hopes that black lives matter — even many years later.

The family of a 13-year-old boy shot to death by a cop 22 years ago rallied Wednesday to demand a full investigation into his death.

Nicholas Heyward Jr. was killed in 1994 by NYPD housing cop Brian George in a staircase of the Gowanus Houses. Nicholas was playing with a toy gun when he fatally crossed paths with a cop responding to a call. At the time, the Brooklyn DA’s office led by Charles Hynes ruled the shooting accidental.

Nicholas Heyward Sr., said his son was playing with a colorful toy gun, a description officials have disputed.

“And when Nicholas came in contact with this officer, he dropped his plastic toy gun and yelled out,” said Heyward, who led demonstrators and parents of police brutality victims in a march from a Wyckoff St. park named in the boy’s honor to the downtown Brooklyn office of DA Kenneth Thompson.