The person accused of killing 17-year-old Raelynn Cameron at a Brooklyn get together earlier this month shot the teenager after she spurned his advances, telling him to “suck my d–okay,” prosecutors mentioned in court docket Thursday.
That’s what apparently enraged Javone Duncan — a 22-year-old profession legal — prompting him to drag out a 9 mm handgun, hearth a single shot into Cameron’s chest and run away on Oct. 11, Brooklyn prosecutors alleged.
“The allegations are that this passed off in a vacant condo,” Assistant District Lawyer David Ingle mentioned at Duncan’s arraignment. “Whereas contained in the condo defendant was flirting with the sufferer.
“Sufferer instructed the defendant to suck her d–okay,” Ingle instructed Decide Simiyon Haniff. “Defendant brandished a handgun and shot the sufferer within the chest, resulting in the sufferer’s demise.”
The accused killer, who arraigned on homicide costs and ordered held with out bail, claimed he wasn’t the one who pulled the set off.
“The defendant mentioned in sum and substance that he noticed his pal shoot the sufferer and that he didn't do it,” Ingle mentioned in court docket.
However the decide wasn’t shopping for it.
“There’s little doubt about it,” Haniff mentioned. “You’re charged with homicide within the second diploma. You’re taking a look at life on the again finish if you happen to’re convicted after trial past an inexpensive doubt.
“The underside line, Mr. Ducan, there’s a useless younger girl and you're the alleged explanation for that,” he mentioned. “Based mostly on that, I shall be remanding you.”
Duncan had been taken into custody on the seventy fifth Precinct stationhouse Wednesday.
Prosecutors mentioned he has six prior busts, together with a pending Queens visitors case and two Brooklyn gun circumstances from 2020 wherein he pleaded out and was sentenced to probation.
Within the homicide case, police mentioned Cameron was at a celebration in a vacant East New York constructing when she was shot and carried to the foyer.
Police mentioned a path of blood led from the sixth-floor condo on the Eldert Lane constructing, onto the elevator and into the foyer the place the sufferer was discovered mortally wounded.
Cameron, of Far Rockaway, was rushed to Brookdale College Hospital, the place she was later pronounced useless from a gunshot wound.
Her 25-year-old brother instructed detectives he acquired an SOS message from his child sister and rushed to the constructing, unaware that she was already useless or dying.
Police initially believed the capturing was unintentional however later dominated it a murder — whereas Cameron’s mom believed the gunman was a spurned love curiosity.
Her mother beforehand instructed The Publish she had an thought who the alleged killer was, claiming the shooter “pointed the gun proper at her and mentioned ‘f—okay that bitch’ as he pulled the set off – simply because she wouldn’t get with him.
“She was fatally wounded once they put her within the hallway like a bag of rubbish,” Cassandra Adams mentioned. “She was useless already once they put her on the market.”
Duncan’s two prior gun circumstances in Brooklyn from late 2020 have been mixed as a part of a plea deal to settle them.
Within the first case, he was arrested on Sept. 3, 2020, and charged with weapons possession and automobile and visitors violations. Based on a legal grievance, cops noticed Duncan driving a 2005 Kia with Florida license plates with the headlights off shortly earlier than 1 a.m. in Crown Heights.
Cops recovered a loaded .25-caliber Taurus handgun and a bag of marijuana within the automobile.
Within the second case, Duncan was pulled over in Sheepshead Bay on Nov. 13, 2020 for having overly darkish tinted home windows on the 2007 Nissan Altima with Pennsylvania plates that he was driving, based on a legal grievance in that case.
He sped off and led police on a automobile chase, working crimson lights, cease indicators, and twice driving the incorrect method on one-way streets earlier than he ditched the automobile and ran off.
Cops caught him and located a loaded 9 mm handgun within the automobile, and decided the automobile was unregistered and that he solely had a driver’s allow, not a license. He was charged with felony weapons possession and reckless endangerment and was hit with varied visitors violations in that case.
Duncan’s solely different arrest got here in Queens within the early morning on Sept. 22 this 12 months.
In that case, which continues to be pending, Duncan was allegedly driving a 2007 Nissan Altima in Lindenwood with out license plates and sped off, practically hitting a cop.
Police later caught up with him and mentioned didn't have a driver’s license. He was charged with reckless endangerment and a number of other visitors violations in that case and is because of return to Queens court docket on Nov. 15, prosecutors mentioned Thursday.
Duncan is because of return to court docket in Brooklyn on Nov. 1 within the homicide case.
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