A grim connection
Cops see gang tie in B’klyn shooting that killed boy & wounded 2
Detectives have linked the back-to-back Brooklyn shootings that left a 15-year-old boy dead and two others wounded – and cops have busted the alleged gunman in the teen’s murder, police sources said Wednesday.
Sources said both shootings near the Bushwick Houses on Tuesday afternoon were sparked by an ongoing fight between the street crews the Young Stackers and the Marcy Gangsters.
The teenage victims in each shooting were somehow connected to the Young Stackers, sources said.
The bloodshed began about 1 p.m. when 16-year-old Timeek Carter was shot in the torso on Flushing Ave. near Humboldt St.
Witnesses said that two teens chased him down at Flushing Ave before taking a shot at him.
“They were laughing, so I thought they were playing,” said Cynthia Perez, who saw the shooting unfold. “Then they let one shot go. It was one shot, but he kept running into the projects.”
“We didn’t know he was hit at first because he just kept going,” added Perez, 44.
Medics rushed the teen to Kings County Hospital, where he was expected to survive.
About two hours later, a gunman on a bicycle fatally shot Kyon Jackson, 15, outside the Bushwick Houses, cops said. A 42-year-old homeless man also suffered a graze wound to the cheek.
The gunman fled down nearby Varet St., turned south on White St., and ditched the gun under a car, where police found it, sources said.
Cops took one man into custody at the scene and were searching for a second, described as a black man wearing a white T-shirt and black shorts.
Police identified the man as Elijah Harris, 19. He’s charged with murder, assault, weapon possession and reckless endangerment.
Sources said police used video surveillance to link Harris to Kyon’s murder. He’s not charged in Carter’s shooting earlier in the day.
Harris said nothing as police led him out of the 90th Precinct stationhouse Wednesday night.
His mother, Lakeema Harris, 41, scoffed at the idea her son was in a gang.
“Everything is always gangrelated when it comes to black kids,” she said. “I never heard of any Marcy Gangsters. They’re making things up.”
Harris said her younger son went to school with Kyon, but she didn’t know of any connection between Elijah and the victim.
“It’s just unbelievable. He’s a wonderful kid. He just got his Regents high school diploma. He was about to go to trade school to be a carpenter. He wanted to own his own business.”
Kyon, a ninth-grader at Lyons Community School, stood over 6 feet tall, and had basketball dreams, relatives said Tuesday, insisting that the fallen teen was neither in a gang nor the gunman’s intended target.
Attempts to reach Carter’s family were unsuccessful Wednesday.