A teen was shot dead in revenge slaying for his alleged role in the beatdown of a 15-year-old girl to steal her Air Jordans, Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said Thursday.
The 16-year-old Tyquan Howard was shot in the stomach around 1 p.m. Tuesday outside a building on St. Johns Place near Rochester Avenue in Crown Heights, cops said.
Howard died hours later at Brookdale Hospital.
“We had a retaliation shooting in the 77 [Precinct] that stemmed from a young woman that was jumped in robbed by a group of boys,” Harrison said when asked about the uptick in shootings.
“It’s all the stemming from crew-on-crew, gang-on-gang violence,” he told city council members during a budget hearing.
The 16-year-old and his crew punched and kicked the teen girl in the head and body as she writhed on the ground in pain, according to shocking footage from the March 5 incident.
One of the punks grabbed the girl’s Air Jordan sneakers before the group ran off, the video shows.
Howard was arrested following the attack on the teen girl on March 5 and charged with robbery and gang assault. It is unclear specifically why he was released from jail with charges pending.