Nabbed in July slay of young dad

Cops have arrested the man they say gunned down a young Brooklyn father over the carnage-filled Fourth of July weekend that claimed nine lives and wounded dozens more.

Henry Corey, 18, was charged with murder and weapons possession for the July 5 slaying of Jahrell Gause.

Gause, 21, was shot in the chest outside a building on Christopher Ave. near Glenmore Ave. in Brownsville (top) around 5:45 p.m. He died at Brookdale University Hospital.

Corey’s arraignment was pending in Brooklyn Criminal Court on Saturday.

It’s not clear why he targeted Gause, whose loved ones said would always light up at the sight of his 2-year-old daughter, Harmony.

“He was a happy soul, one of a kind, the life of the party,” Harmony’s mom, Treisy Fuentes, 19, told the Daily News in July. “Smiling and always ready to go to war for his own. ... He was always happy with [Harmony], just a great father.

“She knows he is hers, and that he loves her.”

The young father was one of nine people killed in separate shootings on July 5, a bloody Sunday that also wounded 41 victims and turned into one of the most violent days of the summer.

New York City ended the year with a soul-crushing 97% jump in shootings and a 45% surge in murders.

When the ball dropped in near-empty Times Square, the NYPD counted 462 killings across the city in 2020 — 143 more than in 2019. Shootings were also up.

Cops counted 1,531 shooting incidents across the five boroughs, 754 more than in 2019, officials said.

In those incidents, bullets hit 1,868 people. There hasn’t been such an alarming spike violence since 2006, when 1,565 shootings were reported, said NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea.