PARTY BUST
Cops cuff punk eyed in teen slay at bash
THE mother of 16-year-old Iquan Williams won’t ever get to see her son again, but she did get another wish Saturday when a teen was arrested in the killing.
Jahiem Spruill of Bleecker St. was charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon Saturday in the shooting of Iquan Williams a week earlier at a party in Brownsville. It was a party Williams’ parents had begged him not to attend.
Spruill shot Williams in the head during a dispute outside the Prospect Place residence where the party was being held, police sources said.
The argument between the two teens may have been over a neighborhood gang, according to the sources.
Family friends said detectives took Spruill and several other teens into the 73rd Precinct stationhouse for questioning on Fri- day night.
“My son didn’t deserve this,” Iquan’s mother, Tiana Williams, told the Daily News at the scene of her son’s Jan. 4 killing. “We don’t de- serve to be out here crying ... I want whoever did this. They ripped our hearts out.”
She could not be e reached for comment t Saturday night, but a family friend was hearttened by the arrest.
“Several people were e brought to the precinct ct just as we were holding a memorial vigil for Iquan,” said a family friend and community leader, who asked not to be named.
“(The detectives) were confident that one of the individuals would not be coming home,” the community leader said.
Tiana Williams had begged the Frederick Douglass Academy sophomore not to go to the party after Williams’ brother learned on Facebook that someone was planning to bring a gun to the party.
“They got my baby! They got my baby!,” Williams wailed as she and her husband arrived at the scene and found their son lying murdered in a building doorway.
“We called him at 9 p.m., and said, ‘Don’t go.’” Tiana Williams said, tears streaming down her face. “He texted me (around 10 p.m.) and I said, ‘Watch your surroundings. Be careful.’ He said, ‘I love you.’ I said, ‘I love you.’”
“He said he wouldn’t, but he went ... ” the Bushwick mom said, her voice breaking in anguish. Despite police claims, family members do not believe the teen was the intended target.
“He must have walked out with someone they were shooting at,” Williams told The News.
Spruill’s arraignment was pending Saturday night.