New York Daily News

Susp held in Brooklyn club killing

- BY THOMAS TRACY

Police have arrested a known gang member, charging him with opening fire at a Brooklyn lounge last month and killing a man celebratin­g inside.

Richard Campbell, 37, of Queens, was charged with murder and weapons possession in the shooting inside Richard’s Hall & Lounge on Avenue L in Canarsie on Nov. 7.

Cops found Jahdane Olivierre, 29, on the sidewalk with gunshot wounds to his leg and chest.

Medics rushed him to Brookd a l e Hospital, but he couldn’t be saved.

Police tracked down Campbell after a tipster identified him as the shooter.

It’s not clear whether Olivierre (photo) — who was paroled in July after being sentenced to 4 to 8 years in prison for weapons possession in 2013 — was Campbell’s target or an innocent bystander.

Witnesses to the shooting were uncooperat­ive and Campbell refused to talk to police when he was taken into custody, police said.

Campbell’s arraignmen­t at Brooklyn Criminal Court was pending Thursday. He is a known gang member who was arrested for assault in 2010 and weapons possession in 2003, authoritie­s said.

Olivierre’s grief-stricken mother was so shocked by her son’s death that she could barely speak above a whisper to the Daily News on Sunday.

“He’s an amazing father, a great son, very creative,” Janice McQueen Olivierre, 52, said about her enterprisi­ng George Westinghou­se High School grad, who was working on a book project and an online venture selling health food products.

He had three brothers, five sisters and a 9-year-old son, his mom said.

“He had a very unique personalit­y, he can draw, he’s a poet, very intelligen­t. To know Jahdane is to love him, everybody loved him,” she said. “He was trying to make the best life that he possibly could make for himself.”

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