A suspect in the gang killing of a 13-year-old boy heading home from a Nets game at Barclays Center has been nabbed after five months, police said Tuesday.
Sheik Koureichi, 20, was arrested Monday and charged with murder and gun possession for the Feb. 29 shooting of Troy Gill during a confrontation at Brooklyn and St. Marks Aves.in Crown Heights, police said.
Troy was a member of the Drench gang and had a tattoo reading “Drench” on his back.
Troy was killed in retaliation for an assault hours earlier in which a 20-year-old member of a rival gang was assaulted, cops previously said. It was not immediately clear Tuesday if Koureichi was the assault victim.
While at Barclays, Troy FaceTimed his mom and did so again when he was leaving the arena around 10:10 p.m. to tell her he was getting in an Uber home, cops said.
For reasons not clear, Troy got out of the Uber several minutes away from his home.
Moments later he was shot, cops said. He then called his mother again on FaceTime to tell her what happened.
Struck in the chest and arm he ran from the scene and collapsed two blocks away.
March 5, 2024: ‘He didn’t deserve that’
New York Daily News Front page of the New York Daily News for March 5, 2024: Mom of 13-year-old killed on way home from Nets game tells News her son wasn’t in a gang. Mary Culbertson speaks Monday night to Daily News of love for 13-year-old son, Troy Gill (inset), who was shot dead in Crown Heights on his way home from a Brooklyn Nets game Thursday night.
Medics rushed him to Kings County Hospital but he could not be saved.
“He was a 13-year-old boy,” Troy’s mother, Mary Culbertson, later said. “He was a baby and that should’ve never happened to him or anyone else’s baby. He did not deserve that.”
