Crime scene investigators with the New York Police Department work at the scene where multiple people were killed and others injured in a shooting during J’ouvert festivities in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Monday, Sept. 5, 2016.
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Boyce said Moise told an acquaintance, “I think I shot somebody on the parade route”. So I ducked to the ground but I didn’t know I was hit.
Less than a half hour prior to Poyau being shot, 17-year-old Tyreke Borel was shot and killed in a separate shooting approximately one block away, cops said.
Moise is being charged with second-degree murder, criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment.
The city has experienced its safest summer in the modern era of recordkeeping – even in the face of a spate of violence surrounding the J’Ouvert celebration in Brooklyn over Labor Day weekend, officials said Tuesday.
“J’Ouvert will continue”, the mayor said Tuesday during briefing on the monthly crime statistics at One Police Plaza. “To the men and women of this Department, thank you for what you do every day to make this the safest big city in America”.
Police beefed up their presence at this year’s event after former Cuomo administration aide Carey Gabay was shot to death during J’Ouvert last year.
Council Member Jumaane D. Williams released a statement on Monday, saying “Despite the many criticisms towards the parade, the West Indian Day festival is still meaningful to countless of people because of what it reflects”.
“I am leaving as I began, with very good crime numbers”, said Bratton, as Mayor Bill de Blasio accompanied him and other police brass in addressing reporters.
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.
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