New York Post

Stab vic’s ma: ‘I want justice’

- Kevin Sheehan, Larry Celona and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

The heartbroke­n mom of a slain Brooklyn teen mourned by his principal as “a joyful leader” described in tragic detail to The Post on Sunday how her son was stabbed in front of his twin.

And now she wants the “little punks” who did it to pay.

“I want justice for him,” Simone Brooks said of her murdered son, high-school senior Nyheem Wright, 17, (in- set) whose distraught twin, Raheem, stayed by his brother’s side as Nyheem bled out on a Coney Island sidewalk after school last week.

“These ones nowadays, they all want to pull weapons,” Brooks,

50, said of her sons’ heinous attackers. “They don’t want to fight it out because they’re just little punks.

“We want justice for my son Nyheem because he did not deserve this, and we are not OK.”

Police believe Nyheem was attacked by about six teen boys because of a fight over a girl earlier in the day, law-enforcemen­t sources told The Post on Sunday.

The victim was not part of any gang, sources said.

He and Raheem were jumped by their attackers around 3:20 p.m. Friday at a Rite Aid parking lot on Mermaid Avenue and West 30th Street, police said.

Nyheem was pronounced dead at Maimonides Medical Center on Saturday, after which city schools Chancellor David Banks tweeted, “I spoke with the young man’s principal this evening, who described him as a joyful leader.

“He was on the verge of graduation, and was a hard worker who took an active role in leading other young people at his school.”

The principal of Nyheem’s school, K728 Liberation Diploma Plus HS, spent Friday night at the hospital with the family, the teen’s mom said.

Brooks said Raheem stayed with his twin and that “when the ambulance came, they kept saying, ‘He’s losing a lot of blood.’ ”

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