Boy, 15, hit with murder charge in NYC slaying of teen, 16, that left dad wailing in grief
A 15-year-old boy was charged with second-degree murder Thursday night in connection to last week’s deadly shooting of another teen in Harlem, authorities said.
The youth was nabbed around 11:30 p.m., when officers on patrol recognized him from a wanted poster as the suspect in the Oct. 24 fatal shooting of 16-year-old Clarence Jones, cops said.
Jones was blasted in the torso around 1:37 a.m. at West 124 Street and Lenox Avenue, according to the NYPD.
First responders rushed him to Harlem Hospital, where he died.
Gut-wrenching photos from the scene show Jones’ father collapsing and crying out that his teenage son had been “taken” from him.
It is unclear whether he witnessed the shooting or arrived later.
The NYPD had no information Friday on the motive for the teen’s murder, or whether the two boys knew each other.
Police did not release the teens name because of his age, and prosecutors did not immediately respond about whether he would be tried as an adult or a juvenile.
“We don’t know about a target. We don’t know about nothing…All we know is someone killed our nephew,” Jones’ aunt, Desiree Murray, previously told The Post.
“He was a sweet kid, man, sweet kid……just caught up in the wrong, you know, the wrong crowd, whatever, but overall, he was a good kid,” she added.
A stray bullet from the shooting also pierced the passenger side window of a Lyft nearby — narrowly missing the driver, who was injured by broken glass.
The shooting marked the first of five in as many days that took the lives of teens across the Big Apple, cops said.
Among the other teens killed in the violent stretch was Tristan Sanders, 15, shot in the chest on the grounds of the New York City Housing Authority’s Albany Houses on St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights Sunday night, police said.
Joshua Sparrow, 18, was gunned down Monday night on Reverend James Polite Ave. in the Bronx, according to cops.
Taearion Mungo, 16, was blasted in the chest Saturday outside another NYCHA building in Fort Greene, authorities said.
And Malachi Deberry, 15, took a deadly bullet to the head Friday on Lenox Road near Rockaway Parkway in Brownsville.
No arrests have been made in any of those shootings.
