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A Queens high school football player was picked up for the shooting murder of a 13-year-old at a nearby car wash despite the suspect's coaches insisting that he had been at school preparing for practice. While police have now announced that they arrested a teenager in the shooting death of young Kevin Miller, it turns out that the current suspect in custody was not the first one arrested. 16-year-old Nmesoma Okafor was taken out of his Campus Magnet locker room in Cambria Heights in handcuffs late on Friday afternoon because cops said he fit the description of the shooter—namely that he was wearing an orange shirt.
When cops told him he fit the description, Okafor shot back at them, "Don't we all? Tall, black guy in an orange shirt?" In a strange twist of fate, Okafor's mother was attempting to revive the 13-year-old victim Miller at the hospital where she was a nurse at the same time her son was (unbeknownst to her) being arrested for the shooting that would end up taking Miller's life. Okafor was released at 9 p.m. once his alibi checked out well enough for police.
In order to make a point to cops, the entire Campus Magnet football squad posed for a picture in the Daily News, all wearing orange shirts.
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Orange shirt pic is a smart move.
From the linked DN article:
"a witness had identified Okafor"
It wasn't only because of the color of his shirt.
The initial "arrest" appears to be due to the color of his shirt, as the witness ID seems to have occurred at the precinct, not the locker room (at least the way the DN article chronology seems to go).
I don't read it that way at all, as the above statement -- with the important word being had -- is the only mention of that identification.
The chronology in the article goes: they canvassed the area and spoke to the soccer team. Then entered the locker room, looked around and took Okafor into custody. Later they released him, and then when asked why he was arrested said a witness had identified him.
Kind of sounds like somebody on the soccer team may not like him.
That sucks, but this is part of the price we all pay for justice.
I don't know why it took 5 hours for the cops to get it sorted out though.
That seems inexcusable.
And that witness should be punished too.
"In a strange twist of fate, Okafor's mother was attempting to revive the 13-year-old victim Miller at the hospital where she was a nurse"
... unbelievable!
It might be a minor quibble, but small correction here: The coach "shot back" at them "Don't we all?" not the student-athlete Okafor.
That's a pretty major quibble IMO. To me, it makes the student seem much less of a confrontational loud mouth and the coach confident that the kid was innocent.