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The distraught mother of a 14-year-old boy fatally shot inside his Queens apartment told the News she was devastated by the tragedy, in which a 15-year-old was charged late Thursday.
“I’m a registered nurse and my husband works security,” the victim’s mother, Tyshia Juin, 36, a registered nurse, told The News. “We are good people. We don’t own a gun.
“I save people everyday, but I couldn’t save my own son. I don’t know why God would do this to me. He was a beautiful boy.”
Police on Thursday said they arrested a 15-year-old suspect in connection with the fatal shooting of Jamauri Mezar. The teen suspect, whose name is not being released because he is a minor, is charged with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, according to police.
Jamauri was inside his third floor apartment with a group of friends at the Norman Towers complex around 5 p.m. Wednesday near 90th Ave. and 161st St. in Jamaica when shots rang out and the boy was struck in the head, sources told the Daily News.
The group quickly dispersed from the apartment — with one of the friends staying to open the door for police, the family of the boy said.
The boy’s stepfather came home from his job as a security guard to find the boy dead, the victim’s mother said.
EMS pronounced the teen dead inside the apartment.
According to family and neighbors, a group of friends — one of whom had a gun — were inside the apartment. It wasn’t immediately clear if the victim was handling the gun when shots were fired, or if someone else had the gun when it went off.
“When the mother got here, she was screaming ‘let me in, let me in. I want to see my son,’ but they were holding her back,” one neighbor said. “She was hysterical.”
The family of the victim were seen outside the building embracing each other.
Cops recovered the firearm.
With Roni Jacobson
