New York Daily News

Me. I’m dead

Tears for ‘best kid’ who ran ‘with wrong crew’

- Ttracy@nydailynew­s.com

my son. I said, ‘Please son, don’t die.’ ”

First responders rushed Mosley to Woodhull Hospital but he could not be saved. No arrests have been made. Mosley had been an honor roll student at the Urban Assembly School for Music and Arts and was working at Target in Downtown Brooklyn, relatives said.

“Never missed a day of school,” his mother said. “He was the best kid.”

The doomed Brooklyn resident was also a skilled artist who enjoyed drawing anime, his cousin Vashon Edwards, 21, said.

“He used to draw maps of the United States, maps of the world,” Edwards said. “He wanted to join the Army.”

“Growing up, he always made me laugh,” Edwards added. “He would make up funny dances for Grandma.”

Neighbors said Mosley had just left a party when he was shot. He may have been killed over a woman, they speculated.

But Mosley’s mother believes her son was robbed.

“I was looking for his money,” the mom said, noting that O’Neal had just gotten paid and had recently received his tax return.

Mosley had at least $3,000 on him when he was killed, his stepfather, Jeremy Mosley, said.

“It was one of his buddies that he drinks with, I guarantee that,” the heartbroke­n stepdad said. “He’s the only one that has a job so they’re trying to mooch off him.”

“He started hanging out with the wrong crew,” his stepfather said.

Mosley was a “sweetheart boy,” according to Annie Capellan, who works in the Jerannie Deli near where the shooting took place.

“People get angry — boom, boom, boom — people are killed for nothing,” Capellan, 49, said.

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