Crime & Safety

Cops Make Arrest for Greene Ave. Shooting

A 20-year-old is charged with the post-basketball game melee that left five in the hospital.

Cops arrested a 20-year-old on Saturday for the Jan. 14 shooting that left five teenagers with gunshot wounds.

Keenan Upson, a resident of the Walt Whitman Houses, was charged with multiple counts of assault and reckless endangerment as well as criminal possession of weapon, according to cops.

Police say that Upson is the man behind the that happened on Greene Avenue between Vanderbilt and Clermont avenues at around 10 p.m. after a big basketball game at between the Lions and Christ the King.

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The five victims — including an 18-year-old girl — were all shot below the waist, sustained non-life threatening injuries and were taken to Kings County Hospital.

"It is a violation of our school community, the safety we seek to secure, and the values we work to instill in those entrusted to our care,” said Bishop Loughlin's President, Brother Dennis Cronin, days after the incident.

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Rumors were still swirling about what sparked the shooting, which involved students from neither school.

"Apparently, the fight may have broken out over a teenage girl, or a possible robbery motive,” said Council Member Letitia James.

The Daily News managed to speak with one of the victims last Tuesday, who said that the dispute started over a stylish Louis Vuitton cap that one of the gunman’s posse tried to snatch.

Cops had released of a posse allegedly involved in the shooting on Wednesday.

 


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