Two neighbors are facing various weapons charges in connection to the Saturday night Queens shooting that ended in the murder of a 10-year-old boy days before his birthday, the NYPD announced Friday. Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison tweeted Friday that detectives executed a search warrant Thursday night on Beach 45 Street in Far Rockaway and arrested Ashram Lochan, 26, eventually.
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A second person was arrested and is facing various weapons charges in connection to the Saturday night Queens shooting that ended in the murder of a 10-year-old boy days before his birthday, the NYPD announced Friday.
Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison tweeted Friday that detectives executed a search warrant Thursday night in Far Rockaway and arrested Astram Lochan, eventually charging him with various weapons crimes.
Wallace was shot and killed while at a family barbecue Saturday night; he would have turned 11 on Tuesday and was set to graduate from a charter prep school two days later.
At the time of his death, the fifth grader attended
Challenge Preparatory Charter School in Far Rockaway.
Queens Assistant District Attorney Bryan Kotowski said in court that Young had been picked out of three photo arrays by witnesses.
‘The defendant did make efforts to conceal evidence in committing this crime,’ Kotowski told
Acting Supreme Court Justice Toko Serita according to the nypost.
‘When he did speak to police the first time he came in, he was not truthful with respect to his whereabouts and his actions with respect to the crime,’ he said.
‘And that was three days prior to him surrendering himself to the precinct.’