Suspect hit with weapons charges in connection with fatal shooting of Brooklyn man just before his 19th birthday
Police arrested a man on weapons charges in connection with the shooting death of a Fort Greene youth just hours short of the victim’s 19th birthday.
Kenyon Huggins, 22, was hit with criminal possession of a Mossberg MC1 automatic pistol that investigators have traced back to the murder of Rmeek Lucas outside NYCHA’s Ingersoll Houses near Myrtle Ave. and St. Edwards St. around 11 p.m. last Friday, according to the NYPD.
Huggins was spotted about 15 minutes later tossing the gun behind a white Ford van as he ran from police down Saint Edwards St. toward Myrtle Ave., according to the criminal complaint against him.
Huggins was also charged with obstruction of government administration and resisting arrest. He has not been charged with Lucas’ death, which cops continue to investigate.
The gun wasn’t loaded, according to law enforcement sources, and the charges against him are not bail-eligible.
He was arraigned in a Brooklyn Criminal Court Sunday and released without bail. He’s due back June 27.
Lucas was shot multiple times in the chest and right leg, cops said.
Medics rushed him to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital but he couldn’t be saved.
The victim had no criminal record. It wasn’t immediately clear why he was targeted, police sources with knowledge of the case said.
Huggins’ Legal Aid lawyer, Sarah Kaufman, did not respond to calls for comment.
