A man and a woman were killed and five other people were injured in three shootings and two stabbings during J’Ouvert celebrations along the West Indian Day Parade route in Brooklyn early Monday morning, police say.
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NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said that Reginald Moise was arrested in the shooting death of 22-year-old Tiarah Poyau.
Ballistics evidence from the gun was found at two scenes; the bullet found to have killed Poyau and another that just missed a crib holding a one-year-old infant but entered a nearby wall.
A 22-year-old college student lost her life after attending the J’Ouvert Caribbean pride celebration in NY, officials say. At 8 a.m. Monday, they arrested Moise on allegations of driving while intoxicated and crashing into three cars on Parkside Avenue and Parade Place in Brooklyn.
But State Senator Kevin Parker, whose districts include Flatbush and East Flatbush, countered, “We have in our community a violence problem, not a J’Ouvert problem”, reported the Daily.
Moise, who shot up a friend’s apartment while trying to hide his.9-mm Glock there, was charged with second-degree murder, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment. He was arrested for DWI and held as the investigation continued. “It all starts to fit together”.
“We then talk to his friends and they tell, one of the individuals he spoke to said, ‘I think I shot somebody on the parade ground, and I didn’t know the gun was loaded”, Boyce said.
Shortly before that, in a different incident, a 17-year-old boy was fatally shot in the chest about a block away.
In the wake of this tragic violence during the Caribbean Day Festival, despite ramped up police presence and first official permit obtained by the city, many officials are speaking out about what else can be done to keep parade-goers safe in the years ahead. I thought it was loaded.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that there were no plans to cancel the annual celebrations, but said the city will review plans for future festivities. The NYPD doubled the number of cops and equipment at this year’s celebration.
