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Yesterday, the funeral of 13-year-old Kevin Miller was held in a Jamaica church, a week after he was hit by a stray bullet from gang gunfire. Queens DA Richard Brown also announced that a second suspected Crips gang member was arrested for Miller's murder, "This case is another example of the mindless gun-related violence and street gang mentality that turns our streets into battlefields and too often takes innocent lives and recklessly endangers public safety."

A sixteen-year-old Queens boy has confessed to firing the the shots that killed thirteen-year-old Kevin Miller just after the end of the school day at nearby Campus Magnet High School. Nnonso Ekwegbalu of Laurelton was arrested on Saturday night and admitted to being the one to pull a gun and fire the two shots that left Miller dead and injured a 17-year-old employee of the car wash where the fight that sparked the gunshots was taking place. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told reporters yesterday that there was an arrest and that Ekwegbalu has "made statements" in regards to the Cambria Heights shooting. Reports did not mention if they found the orange shirt that Ekwegbalu was allegedly wearing that initially led them to arrest and quickly release a Campus Magnet football player soon after the shooting.

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.

Not even an hour after the Friday school bell rang at a Queens high school, a freshman was killed during an after-school fight. Soon after school was let out at Campus Magnet Humanities and the Arts High School (aka Andrew Jackson) in Cambria Heights, a fight broke out among a group of teenagers, ending when one of the broke out a gun and fatally shot 13-year-old Kevin Miller in the head.