Arrest made in fatal shooting of teenage hoops star in Brooklyn
A 23-year-old man was arrested on Monday for the fatal shooting of a teenage hoops star who bled out in her sister’s arms on a Brooklyn street last month, cops said.
Malik Bob was busted on charges of murder and criminal possession of a weapon for allegedly gunning down 17-year-old Shayma Roman on Sept. 28 in Crown Heights, according to police.
The arrest came just days before Roman, who was an innocent bystander, would have turned 18 years old. A second suspect has yet to be apprehended.
The teenage girl was leaving a relative’s apartment building on Eastern Parkway near Rochester Avenue around 6:15 p.m. when she was struck by two stray bullets — once in the chest and once in the arm — fired by two gunmen, police and sources said.
Roman was rushed to Brookdale Hospital where she was pronounced dead 20 minutes later.
Police sources said the teen was an unintended victim of a gang-related shooting that she got caught in the crossfire between the two shooters. The second gunman remains at large, police said.
When officers responded to the shooting scene, they found her face down on the pavement in a pool of blood next to empty beer bottles and a pair of dice, sources said.
Roman died in the arms of her 19-year-old sister Tayma Roman, relatives and an eye witness told The Post last month.
The sisters shared a bedroom and clothes and went everywhere together — so much so that people often mistook them for twins, their older brother Shakem Roman said.
“I don’t know how my sister is going to take this,” he told The Post the day after Roman’s murder. “She’s over by grandmother’s or over by the friends. She can’t come home. She can’t come back home, they shared a room, she can’t.”
Roman was a student at Brooklyn Democracy Academy and played on the Lady Wolves basketball team.
A neighbor said she was known as a star basketball player and star student on the block.
“She was really loved by everyone,” the neighbor said.
Roman, who was the youngest of her siblings, would have turned 18 on Sunday, Oct. 30.
