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COURIER LIFE, APRIL 8-14, 2022
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Family of the 12-yearold
boy Kade Lewin, who
was shot and killed in a
hail of gunfire in Brooklyn
last week, pleaded with the
public to help police find
the perpetrators Monday.
The mom of the victim,
Suzette, spoke through
tears as she asked anyone
with information on her
child’s slaying to come forward.
“Please come forward.
Please, please somebody
say something. I’m asking
for justice for Kade, please,”
Lewin told reporters during
a press conference with
Mayor Eric Adams and officials
on April 4.
Young Kade was eating
dinner in a car with his
aunt Jenna Ellis, 20, and
an 8-year-old girl at E. 56th
Street and Linden Boulevard
in East Flatbush on
March 31, when people in
two dark-colored sedans
nearby exchanged gunfire,
according to police.
Kade was shot in the
head and died, and Ellis
caught six bullets and was
rushed to Kings County
Hospital, while the young
girl was uninjured.
Ellis underwent surgery,
but is expected to recover.
The criminals remain
on the lam, and city officials
and police sounded
the call for New Yorkers to
help locate them.
Ellis’s mother also
asked her community
in the central Brooklyn
neighborhood to help find
the killers, and to work to
stem gun violence.
“This must be stopped.
It could be anyone’s family,”
Jennifer Jones Ellis
said. “I didn’t know it
would have been my family,
nobody knows who is
gonna be next.”
“Whatever you see, call
the police, say something,
because it is not the end.
We just don’t know who is
next,” she added. “We just
don’t want it to be a next
Kade.”
Mayor Adams echoed
the sentiments, while holding
up a pair of Kade’s
shoes. “Whose child is
next? These could have
been Jordan’s sneakers —
my son,” Hizzoner said.
“Jenna is still in the hospital
with six bullets — six
bullets — in that baby girl.”
He asked for any contributions
to help the family
to go to the Lisa S. Dozier
funeral home.
Police Commissioner
Keechant Sewell said the
public can help by dialing
the police hotline with any
information on the shooters.
“Your NYPD is doing
everything it can and
knows how to do well to deter,
and prevent, an apprehend
those responsible but
we need your help,” the top
cop said.
On April 1, elected officials,
advocates and East
Flatbush residents came
together Friday evening to
condemn yet another fatal
shooting in the borough.
“I don’t want to be out
here come this summer
mourning more gun-related
deaths,” said Borough
President Antonio
Reynoso during the April
1 rally near the corner
where Kade was killed.
There, family and
friends remembered the
victim as a “good son.”
Anyone with information
regarding this shooting
can call Crime Stoppers at
Mayor Eric Adams speaks to reporters in East Flatbush on April 4
joined by the two moms of gun violence victims, including 12-yearold
boy Kade Lewin. Photo by Caroline Ourso
800-577-TIPS (for Spanish,
dial 888-57-PISTA). You can
also submit tips online at
crimestoppers.nypdonline.
org, or on Twitter @NYPDTips.
All calls and messages
are kept confidential.
Contributions to help the
families should go to www.
lisadozierfuneralservice.
com.
Additional reporting by
Meaghan McGoldrick and
Lloyd Mitchell
‘Justice for Kade’
Adams asks for help finding shooters that killed 12-year-old
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