2 men killed in B’klyn are remembered
A Haitian immigrant who looked forward to starting a family was fatally shot in a Brooklyn drive-by attack — one of two men gunned down within an alarming half hour of bloodshed in the borough.
Kelvin Mussonguela, 26 (photo), was killed by a gunman who opened fire near a corner store at Utica Ave. and Sterling Place in Crown Heights just before 4:50 a.m. on Sunday.
“He wanted kids. He wanted a daughter, a son,” a friend who didn’t give her name said Monday. She and his pals knew Mussonguela as KayKay, and described him as a stylish dresser.
“He always wore his dark shades,” said the woman. “He was a friend to me. It’s sad.”
Mussonguela, who was trying to become a U.S. citizen, was recently required to wear an ankle bracelet, his friends said. According to police sources, Mussonguela had a pair of domestic violence-related arrests over the past four years. The friends said they didn’t know if the restraint and arrests were related.
About 20 minutes earlier Sunday, two gunmen opened fire on Eirvin Monroe, 32, as he sat in his car outside a Dunkin’ Donuts store on Ralph Ave. in Canarsie.
His devastated mother, Arlene Monroe, said Monday she still hasn’t been able to view his body.
“I wanna see my son, and then I’m gonna sit and talk who my son is, what son he is and what he meant to us. I can’t do it now,” she said. She described him as a father of three children — 13, 9 and 5. He worked as an electrician before he was laid off during the pandemic, she said.
“People gonna say stuff, but deep down inside, it doesn’t mean anything to me,” she said. “What matters is, he has a mother and a father and a sister, and a grandmother and everyone who loves him. All his friends.
“My son come from a family. No one can say my son was from the street,” she said.
“You know what I don’t understand? Congress, the House of Representatives, they aren’t working for us. They’re looking at color, red state, blue state. The same blood runs through us.”
No arrests have been made in either slaying.