Arrest made in fatal shooting of teenage hoops star in Brooklyn

A 23-year-old man was arrested on Monday for the deadly capturing of a teenage hoops star who bled out in her sister’s arms on a Brooklyn avenue final month, cops mentioned.

Malik Bob was busted on fees of homicide and legal possession of a weapon for allegedly gunning down 17-year-old Shayma Roman on Sept. 28 in Crown Heights, in keeping with police.

The arrest got here simply days earlier than Roman, who was an harmless bystander, would have turned 18 years outdated. A second suspect has but to be apprehended.

The teenage lady was leaving a relative’s condo constructing on Jap Parkway close to Rochester Avenue round 6:15 p.m. when she was struck by two stray bullets — as soon as within the chest and as soon as within the arm — fired by two gunmen, police and sources mentioned.

Roman was rushed to Brookdale Hospital the place she was pronounced useless 20 minutes later.

Police sources mentioned the teenager was an unintended sufferer of a gang-related capturing that she received caught within the crossfire between the 2 shooters. The second gunman stays at giant, police mentioned.

When officers responded to the capturing scene, they discovered her face down on the pavement in a pool of blood subsequent to empty beer bottles and a pair of cube, sources mentioned.

Shayma Roman, 17, was fatally shot in Crown Heights on Sept. 28 as she stepped out of a relative’s house.

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Roman’s alleged killer, Malik Bob, 23, was arrested Monday virtually a month after the capturing.

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Roman died within the arms of her 19-year-old sister Tayma Roman, kin and a watch witness instructed The Publish final month.

The sisters shared a bed room and garments and went in every single place collectively — a lot so that individuals typically mistook them for twins, their older brother Shakem Roman mentioned.

“I don’t know the way my sister goes to take this,” he instructed The Publish the day after Roman’s homicide. “She’s over by grandmother’s or over by the chums. She will be able to’t come house. She will be able to’t come again house, they shared a room, she will be able to’t.”

Shayma Roman died within the arms of her older sister, Tayma Roman, pictured above at a vigil for the slain teen.

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Roman was a pupil at Brooklyn Democracy Academy and performed on the Girl Wolves basketball staff.

A neighbor mentioned she was often called a star basketball participant and star pupil on the block.

“She was actually cherished by everybody,” the neighbor mentioned.

Roman, who was the youngest of her siblings, would have turned 18 on Sunday, Oct. 30.