The enraged individual who gunned down a 15-year-old boy aboard a Queens subway remained on the loose Saturday.
Meanwhile, Jayjon Burnett’s distraught parents were struggling to make sense of their son’s killing.
“My son was a good kid. He was a straight ‘A’ student…I never had no problems with him from being in the streets or nothing like that,” Jeff Burnett told The Post. “He wasn’t no bad kid, he wasn’t having no guns, nothing like that.”
Mom Christine Alvarez spoke from a funeral home.
“All I want is justice for my son, justice for my child,” she said before declining further comment.
Jayjon was killed after a fatal feud erupted between two groups of “young individuals” aboard a southbound A train in Far Rockaway around 3:45 p.m. Friday, according to the police.
The argument began as the train was near the Beach 36th Street Station, and the boy was shot in the chest, Transit Chief Jason Wilcox told reporters Friday night.
A good Samaritan pulled Burnett off the train after it arrived at the Far Rockaway-Mott Ave. station. The mortally wounded teen was pronounced dead at Cohen’s Children’s Medical Center.
“You have a lot of kids getting off the train at that time……coming from school,” said a vendor outside the subway station, who saw first responders frantically working to save the teen’s life.
Noted one MTA worker: “When the train stopped, they [fellow students] came out screaming, ‘My friend, my friend.’ “They did not run. They gathered around,” the worker continued. “People were trying to help. One woman came to wash her hands. Her hands were covered with blood,” the worker said.
It’s unclear what fueled the fatal altercation.
Jayjon liked to play football and kept out of trouble, said his dad.
“I am mad. I can’t bring my son back, you know. It always happens to the good kids so that’s why I was so scared… Right now it’s hard, it’s hard you know. It’s very, very hard right now,” he said.
A friend of the heartbroken father, who would not give his name, said he spoke to the victim the day before he died.
“I was saying, ‘Listen, you ain’t live life yet, you’re only 15.’ He said, ‘I’m good, I’m good,’” the friend recalled, adding he told the youth: “You gonna see a lot of people not gonna make it, people be taking lives, they ain’t even live life yet.”
The friend said he heard the shooting “was over a girl.”
The teen’s death came more than four months after Goldman Sachs employee Daniel Enriquez was shot and killed in a random attack on the Q train, and weeks after two other New Yorkers — Tommy Bailey, 43, and Charles Moore, 38, — fatally stabbed in separate incidents on the city’s subways.
Another building resident who found out about the slaying Saturday morning, said Burnett had previously attended PS 197.
“We all knew him. The child was a good kid. I’m so shocked and hurt for his mother and father.. he was a good kid — so respectful and everybody loved him that’s why everybody in the building is so torn up about it.”
The woman had no sympathy for Burnett’s killer.
“These young kids it seems like they have the spirit of no fear, they think they can do anything and get away with it because they feel like the law has their back and they’re not going to be prosecuted. They can do what they wanna do. This is so crazy.”
