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Police have recognized the gunman suspected of killing a 15-year-old boy, an harmless bystander, in a broad daylight capturing on a Brooklyn avenue final week.
The alleged killer is only a teen himself, in accordance with cops who mentioned they’re searching for Leopoldo Nash, 17, in connection to the slaying.
Nash, of Gravesend, is accused of capturing Faridun Mavlonov – a pupil at James Madison High School pupil — within the again when he meant to strike one other particular person on 62nd Street close to twentieth Avenue in Bensonhurst round 1 p.m. final Monday, police mentioned.
Mavlonov was rushed to Maimonides Medical Center and died early the following day.
The pupil was strolling with a gaggle of 5 boys and one woman when Nash allegedly fired seven rounds at them and struck him within the again, in accordance with cops.
Nash had reportedly focused one of many different boys however missed and struck Mavlonov as a substitute, police mentioned.
The gunman and his meant goal had gotten into an argument throughout summer season faculty at Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School and agreed to satisfy after class to duke it out with their fists forward of the lethal capturing.
The slain teen, who lived lower than a mile from the place he was mortally wounded, had dreamed of changing into a UFC fighter and was a loyal good friend, one in all his friends instructed The Post following his dying.
“He was like a giant brother for everybody,” a 15-year-old good friend mentioned. “He appeared out for them.”
The 15-year-old, who attended the identical judo studio as Mavlonov, known as him an incredible good friend who was mature for his age because the eldest of six kids initially from Uzbekistan.
“When you want somebody to speak to, he would all the time be there. Even for those who didn’t have cash, you’d be like, ‘Yo, I’m hungry,’ he would put you first… Doesn’t matter how he’s, if he’s hungry or not,” he mentioned. “He’ll put you first and ensure he takes care of you.”
The boy’s father cried that his son’s life was lower a lot too brief at his funeral Thursday.
“I’ve 5 children and he was my boy,” Firdavs Mavlonov sobbed. “He’s helped me with all the pieces. He took care of all the pieces. He was 15. He didn’t see life.”
Mayor Eric Adams attended the funeral, the place he instructed a packed mosque that Mavlonov was a “younger child who was prematurely taken from us.”
He decried violence amongst New York City’s younger individuals and mentioned authorities should take away weapons from the streets.
“And it’s our obligation to take this painful second and switch it right into a purposeful second – and to rededicate our lives to saving the youngsters of our metropolis,” Adams mentioned. “Young persons are killing younger individuals at an alarming charge.”
Nash had not been apprehended by police as of Sunday night time. He was final seen fleeing the scene of the crime on twentieth Avenue in the direction of 62nd Street.
