Jayden Hooks was arrested with a loaded gun within the Instances Sq. subway station Wednesday.
Steven Hirsch
A Manhattan choose ripped right into a teenage boy arrested with a loaded gun within the Instances Sq. subway station — warning him throughout his arraignment Thursday that “nothing good” comes from younger folks carrying firearms.
Performing Supreme Court docket Justice Stephen Antignani set 17-year-old Jayden Hooks’ bail at $10,000, as the teenager wailed and begged him to rethink and his mom cried out within the gallery.
“Younger boys … shouldn’t be carrying weapons,” Antignani stated. “As a result of the ramifications of that's not good. Nothing good comes of it. You both end up incarcerated or in a grave.”
Prosecutors had requested for Hooks — who was busted Wednesday afternoon on the northbound 2 prepare platform — to be launched by means of the juvenile Intensive Neighborhood Monitoring Program, with a 7 p.m. curfew, on the costs of second-degree prison possession of a weapon.
His protection legal professional, William Kendall of Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, argued that this was Hooks’ first contact with the regulation and instructed the choose his consumer was taking the costs “extraordinarily significantly” and would abide by the curfew.
The boy’s mother, who traveled from her house in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for the listening to, additionally pleaded with Antignani, telling him her son “has been a very good child” and will have acted out of worry.
Kendall stated Hooks was despatched to reside along with his aunt in Harlem after his mom moved from Florida to Pennsylvania a couple of months in the past, and that the boy “has actual goals” and is simply 4 credit shy of graduating from highschool.
However the choose remained steadfast, noting the arrest occurred at round 3 p.m., “an important time” for youngsters and their mother and father commuting from faculties.
“These are the circumstances I work with day by day,” Antignani stated. “What I do know proper now's that a younger man was arrested, on a subway, with a loaded firearm at 3 o’clock within the afternoon.”
“Watching a younger baby crying shouldn't be a simple factor for a choose to do,” Antignani continued, as Hooks bawled. “I’m taking a look at him very tearfully, I see him. However that's the reason you don’t put your self on this place. That's what it's. And so I consider some bail is acceptable.”
When Kendall requested the choose to rethink the minimal quantity the household must pay to get his consumer out, Antignani stated “not at this time.”
“I'm not unsympathetic … and I see your tears, I hear your mom’s cries,” the choose instructed Hooks.
He identified that the case wasn’t “distinctive” and that he’d seen folks youthful charged with gun possession.
“The allegation right here is that you simply had a loaded firearm on a New York Metropolis subway and I'll stress once more that so many people at the moment are getting out of COVID and attempting to reside regular, first rate lives,” the fed-up jurist stated.
“We try to get again to regular and but, folks need to trip the subway with people who find themselves carrying loaded weapons,” he continued. “I consider that you're a flight threat.”
Hooks, whose pregnant girlfriend was additionally current on the listening to, cried out “Please, please … No choose, please,” as Antignani set bail.
”I’m sorry. I’m poor. I don’t don't have any cash. I don’t have bail. I’m scared for my life,” the teenager stated. “Please don’t do that to me… Please I’m begging you.”
He’s due again in courtroom Feb. 1.
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