Just before 4:00 am (0800 GMT), 17-year-old Tyreke Borel was shot in the chest on the southern edge of the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, according to the New York Police Department.
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Participants and spectators gather during the West Indian Day Parade in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Monday, Sept. 5, 2016.
Poyau was transported to the hospital and later pronounced dead.
Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce announced the arrest of Reginald Moise at a news conference Tuesday.
Sources told the Times that Borel and Poyau may have been unintended targets. According to “On the Inside”, she was merely caught in the crossfire as she walked along the parade route with friends.
De Blasio said the West Indian parade and two of the city’s other massive annual gatherings, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and the Puerto Rican Day Parade, have all been marred by violence and disorder in the past but each one of them was brought under control.
Last year, Carey Gabay, 43, a Harvard-educated attorney who was formerly an aide to the state’s governor, was struck and killed by a stray bullet during pre-parade festivities and another person was fatally stabbed.
Mayor Bill de Blasio said the ramped-up NYPD presence this year was necessary and appropriate, but the outcome was not what they had hoped for and he left open the possibility of having no celebration next year.
“I am saddened that this has happened”, said the Mayor. But despite the fact that there were no reported shootings, killings or injuries at the five-day event, you won’t know that from reading the news from NY that was picked up around the world. “The nature of some of the violence that’s associated with J’Ouvert is different than the levels of violence at other events”. It began as a huge celebration where French plantation owners imitated slaves, and was later re-appropriated by the freed slaves to mock their former captors and celebrate their freedom.
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As many as 250,000 West Indians drawn from nearly every Caribbean country, including Jamaicans, Trinidadians, Guyanese, Haitians, Barbadians, Grenadians and their neighbors, participated in J’ouvert in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn on the Labor Day Bank holiday. “The carnival puts on display the Caribbean culture for all to take part in and appreciate”.
