Two Teens Turn Themselves in for 9-Year-Old's Shooting

After calls from the NYPD and a critically injured 9-year-old boy's family for help, two neighborhood teens turned themselves in for a Monday night shooting in Crown Heights. Luis Gonzalez, 19, and Jonathan Frazier, 18, were arrested and charged.

The police say the gunfire between Gonzalez and Frazier started because of a third teen, Franklin Gillepsie, who is friends with Gonzalez. Per the Daily News, Gillepsie "was beaten up at a block party at the nearby Albany Houses when he was caught trying to steal a gun." Gillepsie later returned and "took a shot at Frazier but missed" on Sunday. Then on Monday, Frazier biked over to the Weeksville Houses, to find Gillepsie and saw him with Gonzalez.

Gonzalez fired at Frazier, who then returned fire. Shawshawan Kelly was on his bike outside the Weeksville Gardens Houses when a stray bullet hit him in the head. The police had found shell casings from two guns and a sneaker belonging to Frazier at the scene--Gillepsie was also arrested. And Gonzalez lives two floors above the little boy.

While the Police Commissioner said he hoped the arrests would bring "some small measure of comfort to Shamshawan’s family in this horrific event," the boy's father Johnny Kelly told the News, "It doesn't ease the pain. The cops have been excellent, really supportive. It's a good feeling to see that."

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By Jen Chung in News on August 7, 2008 2:53 PM

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UnrepentantFenian

I'm with edEx. People who settle their differences with guns are cowards. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with an innocent person fending off the aggression of others with a firearm.However, if you have a beef with someone bring your words first and back it up with your fists.

Seizure

"The police had found shell casings from two guns and a sneaker belonging to Frazier at the scene"

Tighten those Laces kids, remember just cuz it's stylish to rock your kicks with the laces loose and the tongues hanging out, you might lose it in a gun fight as evidence

Kojak

Couldve

Kojak

"All involved can now move on and write rap songs about their experience."

You don't get street cred by shooting little 9 year old boys by accident. If they actually hit each other multiple times, they couldn't gotten a record deal and go platinum

ed_Extinct

kids today are pussy's. what ever happened to the school yard fist fight?

Spear_Chucker

All involved can now move on and write rap songs about their experience.

rcltrh

It's a good thing Crown Heights is totally gentrified (per Brownstoner.com) and that handguns are illegal to own in this city. Think of what could have happened.