18-year-old charged with murder in fatal Queens subway shooting

Police have arrested 18-year-old Keyondre Russell in connection to the capturing of 15-year-old Jayjon Burnett on the A practice in Far Rockaway, Queens on October 14, 2022.
Wayne Carrington

An 18-year-old man has been arrested for the deadly capturing of a Queens teenager on the A practice in Far Rockaway, the NYPD mentioned.

Keyondre Russell, of Far Rockaway, was charged with homicide and prison possession of a weapon Saturday within the killing of 15-year-old Jayjon Burnett, police mentioned.

Burnett was shot within the chest after an argument broke out on the practice between two teams of younger folks, authorities mentioned.

“The cops referred to as me. I really feel like justice is served,” mentioned Burnett’s mom, Christine Alvarez, who wrote on-line that her son was killed six days earlier than his sixteenth birthday.

Dealing with the lack of her son, a distraught Alvarez instructed The Publish, “I'm not doing nice.”

“I’m a sick mom quite a lot of well being drawback[s],” Alvarez wrote in a GoFundMe, which has raised somewhat greater than $3,000. “[I’m] asking for any little serving to hand to assist deliver my son to peace.”

The eleventh grader had deliberate to go to varsity in Florida, the mom wrote. “My son turned a quantity to a dying crime on the practice  … please household Watch your youngsters hearken to your youngsters converse together with your youngsters.”

Dad Jeff Burnett mentioned of Russell, “He's fortunate they received him earlier than we received him. That’s my baby. He didn't worth my baby’s life.”

A neighbor of the slain teen was glad to listen to of the arrest.

Burnett was shot after an argument broke out on the practice between two teams.

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“Thank God they caught him,” mentioned Haywood Whylie, 80. “…The system is so unhealthy, they go to jail tonight, they're 15,16, 17, 18, they put them again out on the streets and that’s unsuitable. … He doesn't belong in society.  

“There isn't a concern about each other, no emotions in any respect,” the elder man lamented.

An excellent Samaritan pulled Burnett off the practice after it arrived on the Far Rockaway-Mott Ave. station. The mortally wounded teen was pronounced useless at Cohen’s Kids’s Medical Heart.

Burnett’s was the ninth subway killing to date this 12 months, amongst them the Might slaying of Goldman Sachs worker Daniel Enriquez, who was shot and killed in a random assault on the Q practice, and the deadly stabbings of Tommy Bailey, 43, and Charles Moore, 38.