A suspect believed to be liable for the taking pictures demise of a 17-year-old lady inside a vacant house of a sprawling Brooklyn advanced has been arrested, in accordance with police.
Javone Duncan, who lives in the borough, was arrested and charged Wednesday with homicide and weapon possession for the slaying of Raelynn Cameron on Oct. 10, police mentioned. Lawyer info for the 22-year-old Duncan was not instantly obtainable.
Officers responding to a late-night 911 name on the East New York house constructing on Eldert Lane discovered Cameron in the foyer, shot in the chest. The Queens resident was taken to a hospital, the place she was pronounced lifeless — two weeks shy of her 18th birthday.
It wasn’t clear what Cameron, a freshman at Medgar Evers Faculty, was doing in the constructing on the time. Police mentioned Cameron was in a vacant sixth-floor house, inside of which detectives discovered one shell casing and a path of blood. Detectives additionally mentioned there may be surveillance displaying two males leaving her downstairs earlier than 11 p.m. that night.
Regulation enforcement sources initially mentioned police have been trying into whether or not a gun could have been fired by chance, however Cameron’s household later mentioned that narrative did not add up.
“She had potential. She was going somewhere, she was going to be someone,” mentioned mother Cassandra Adams.
Cameron’s mother and brother each mentioned they received texts from her for assist after individuals from the constructing known as 911. Additionally they mentioned they do not know who she was with.
“I just want the truth. I just want justice. I just want to be able to tell the story of how her life began and ended,” mentioned her brother, Ralik Smith.
A church volunteer, Cameron had been staying along with her older brother in Mattress-Stuy for the previous few months.
“She was my world. She was loved. I don’t know who else to say. But I want to speak her story because we lose too many good ones this way,” mentioned Adams. “I will never be the same.”
Anybody with info is requested to name Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.