There was a break Tuesday in a shooting that killed a college student during the J’ouvert Caribbean pride celebration in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
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People who attended New York City’s West Indian Day Parade have lauded the event despite a spate of violence preceding it.
Archly Mathieu says the music was the best part of Monday’s Caribbean celebration in Brooklyn. Her friend Bassem Ashew says she most enjoys seeing everyone come together.
In addition, 45 surveillance cameras were installed along the parade route, 250 light towers were erected to illuminate streets and community activists and clergy reached out to gangs leading up to the event.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Poyau was an worldwide tax intern at PricewaterhouseCoopers. According to police at 3:50 a.m. a 72-year- old woman was shot in the arm and a 17-year-old man was shot in the chest. No arrests have been made.
Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio said that despite the violence city officials are not considering canceling J’ouvert, a celebration that takes place in the pre-dawn hours every Labor Day before the larger West Indian Day Parade kicks off.
In response, police and community leaders stepped up efforts to tamp down potential violence by bringing in 3,400 police officers to monitor the event – double the amount of officers assigned to the festival a year ago. The police presence was increased this year because of safety concerns. Even the Barbados Nation, St. Lucia News online and The Hindu jumped on the AP story with the Nation running with the erroneous headline: “Two killed in West Indies Labour Day Parade” while The Hindu’s headline read: “Two killed in gunfire at Caribbean Carnival in NY”.
“Getting rid of J’Ouvert, even if we did it, wouldn’t speak to any of the issues we deal with 364 days of the year”.
Two people were injured when a motorcycle they were on was hit by a auto.
CBS New York reported that 17-year-old Tyreke Borel of Brooklyn was shot early Monday morning outside a Wendy’s at the corner of Empire Boulevard and Flatbush Avenue.
The shootings that occurred were again at the J’Ouvert pre-dawn celebration in Brooklyn, NY – which has absolutely nothing to do with the West Indian American Day Carnival, now the New York Caribbean Carnival. She was taken to the hospital in stable condition.
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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. Investigators also found a rare 9mm aluminum shell casing – the same type they recovered at the shooting scene on Empire Boulevard.
