The daddy of the teenager shot on the subway Friday is struggling to make sense of his son's killing.
Wayne Carrington for NY Put up
The enraged particular person who gunned down a 15-year-old boy aboard a Queens subway remained on the unfastened Saturday.
In the meantime, Jayjon Burnett’s distraught dad and mom have been struggling to make sense of their son’s killing.
“My son was an excellent child. He was a straight ‘A’ pupil…I by no means had no issues with him from being within the streets or nothing like that,” Jeff Burnett instructed The Put up. “He wasn’t no unhealthy child, he wasn’t having no weapons, nothing like that.”
Mother Christine Alvarez spoke from a funeral dwelling.
“All I would like is justice for my son, justice for my baby,” she stated earlier than declining additional remark.
Jayjon was killed after a deadly feud erupted between two teams of “younger people” aboard a southbound A prepare in Far Rockaway round 3:45 p.m. Friday, in response to the police.
The argument started because the prepare was close to the Seashore thirty sixth Road Station, and the boy was shot within the chest, Transit Chief Jason Wilcox instructed reporters Friday night time.
A very good Samaritan pulled Burnett off the prepare after it arrived on the Far Rockaway-Mott Ave. station. The mortally wounded teen was pronounced useless at Cohen’s Kids’s Medical Middle.
“You will have quite a lot of youngsters getting off the prepare at the moment……coming from college,” stated a vendor exterior the subway station, who noticed first responders frantically working to avoid wasting the teenager’s life.
Famous one MTA employee: “When the prepare stopped, they [fellow students] got here out screaming, ‘My pal, my pal.’ “They didn't run. They gathered round,” the employee continued. “Folks have been making an attempt to assist. One lady got here to scrub her arms. Her arms have been lined with blood,” the employee stated.
It’s unclear what fueled the deadly altercation.
Jayjon appreciated to play soccer and saved out of bother, stated his dad.
“I'm mad. I can’t convey my son again, you realize. It at all times occurs to the great youngsters in order that’s why I used to be so scared… Proper now it’s laborious, it’s laborious you realize. It’s very, very laborious proper now,” he stated.
A pal of the heartbroken father, who wouldn't give his title, stated he spoke to the sufferer the day earlier than he died.
“I used to be saying, ‘Pay attention, you ain’t dwell life but, you’re solely 15.’ He stated, ‘I’m good, I’m good,’” the pal recalled, including he instructed the youth: “You gonna see lots of people not gonna make it, individuals be taking lives, they ain’t even dwell life but.”
The pal stated he heard the taking pictures “was over a woman.”
The teenager’s loss of life got here greater than 4 months after Goldman Sachs worker Daniel Enriquez was shot and killed in a random assault on the Q prepare, and weeks after two different New Yorkers — Tommy Bailey, 43, and Charles Moore, 38, — fatally stabbed in separate incidents on town’s subways.
One other constructing resident who discovered in regards to the slaying Saturday morning, stated Burnett had beforehand attended PS 197.
“All of us knew him. The kid was an excellent child. I’m so shocked and harm for his mom and father.. he was an excellent child — so respectful and all people beloved him that’s why all people within the constructing is so torn up about it.”
The lady had no sympathy for Burnett’s killer.
“These younger youngsters it looks like they've the spirit of no worry, they suppose they'll do something and get away with it as a result of they really feel just like the regulation has their again they usually’re not going to be prosecuted. They will do what they wanna do. That is so loopy.”
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