on Ann St. near Park Ave.<\/a> before going out on the town, according to police sources and Terry\u2019s younger cousin.<\/p>\n\u201cWe were having a lot of fun and everything was chill. And then, I don\u2019t know what happened,\u201d said Terry\u2019s cousin, Nahseem, 19, who was with the trio at the woman\u2019s house before the trio headed out without him.<\/p>\n
\u201cKycell and I were playing Fortnite and one of Kycell\u2019s favorite games, Ninja Storm 4. Jonathan came but he was just watching.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were all chilling, laughing, but then they went out to party or whatever. Well, Kycell and her \u2014 and then Jonathan followed after them,\u201d he added. \u201cI told Kycell, \u2018Be safe\u2019 and that was it.\u201d<\/p>\n
After they returned home and Griffin\u2019s ex fell asleep,\u00a0Griffin repeatedly stabbed Terry in the stomach with a \u201csharp instrument\u201d some time between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m. July 2, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
Griffin\u2019s ex-girlfriend said she slept through the vicious attack and awoke about 7:00 a.m. to find her friend lying dead in a pool of blood and her ex-boyfriend gone.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe went straight to bed,\u201d the woman\u2019s mother told the Daily News. \u201cWhen she woke up, Kycell was dead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nahseem crashed at Terry\u2019s apartment nine blocks away from the woman\u2019s home. The next morning he went back to her place, looking for his older cousin.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just see [Griffin\u2019s ex-girlfriend] crying outside and I see a bunch of (police) tape outside. She said, \u2018Kycell\u2019s dead,\u2019\u201d the teen recalled. \u201cI genuinely couldn\u2019t believe it because we were just having fun and stuff and then the next thing. I wake up in the morning, I find out that he\u2019s gone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Griffin, who lives just a few blocks away from his ex, was hit with charges including murder, criminal contempt and weapon possession . A Staten Island Criminal Court judge ordered him held without bail during his Tuesday arraignment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope he rots \u2026 or your life gets taken more viciously than my son\u2019s life got taken,\u201d Milton said of Griffin. \u201cYou took somebody from me that I could never get back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kycell leaves behind a 1-year-old son.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow my grandson is being raised without a father, because of some senseless bulls\u2013t,\u201d Milton said.<\/p>\n
Terry \u201cdedicated his whole life around his son,\u201d who gave him a second chance at being a father five years after his daughter died at just 3 months old, Milton said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s looking for his dad,\u201d she said of the baby. \u201cHe\u2019s looking out the window every day, going \u2018Da da, da da.\u2019 He\u2019s looking for my son to come home.\u201d<\/p>\n
Terry juggled several jobs in warehouses for FedEx and Amazon and had recently accepted a gig with the city Sanitation Department.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was supposed to start on the 5th but his life was cut short on the 2nd,\u201d Milton said. \u201cHe was ecstatic. He wanted to make a better life for him and his family.<\/p>\n
Milton, who has a heart condition, said Terry also worked as her home health aide.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe would come here [to Brooklyn], then he would leave at 3 or 4 a.m. to go to work on Staten Island,\u201d she said. \u201cMy son was dedicated to making sure I was good, my sister was good, any older woman, cousins, anybody. He had a good heart.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Terry wasn\u2019t working he loved writing and producing rap music under the stage name Chucky Billionaire.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy son rapped about enjoying life. He\u2019s been doing it since he was like 13, 14,\u201d she said. \u201cThe only way I hear my son now is through his music. And he left me with music. [I\u2019ve been listening] every day. I play his music and I look at his picture.\u201d<\/p>\n
Milton buried her son on July 18, which would have been his 26th birthday.<\/p>\n
Terry had a brush with the law in February 2024, when he was caught on video striking a person he\u2019d been arguing with before a man he was with pulled a gun and opened fire on that person, according to court records.<\/p>\n
Hoping to connect Terry to the weapon, prosecutors sought a warrant to collect a DNA sample from him but a judge declined to grant their request since the footage never showed him handling the weapon. Terry was initially charged with criminal possession of a weapon but later got a conditional discharge for reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n
Griffin has a criminal record that includes 22 arrests dating back to 2002. At least three of his most recent arrests involved his ex-girlfriend.<\/p>\n
On April 3, Griffin broke into the ex-girlfriend\u2019s apartment, violating the order of protection she had against him. He then slapped his ex in the back of the head, according to the criminal complaint. He was arrested for burglary, criminal contempt, and harassment.<\/p>\n
One month earlier, Griffin banged on his ex\u2019s apartment door at 4:00 a.m., yelling, \u2018Let me in!\u2019 and was arrested for criminal contempt.<\/p>\n
On November 8, he threw a rock and shattered the same woman\u2019s apartment window. She was struck by a shard of glass, which cut her ear, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, I threw the rock! I don\u2019t give a s\u2013y. I\u2019m gonna get out anyway!\u201d Griffin yelled to her window, according to prosecutors. He was charged with assault, harassment, and criminal contempt.<\/p>\n
Those three cases are still pending in Staten Island Criminal Court.<\/p>\n
Griffin\u2019s attorney did not immediately return a request for comment. He is set to return to court on August 25 in the murder case.<\/p>\n
Griffin\u2019s ex-girlfriend\u2019s mother described the killer as a moody man who had, on some occasions, verbally abused her daughter right in front of her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t figure him out sometimes. Some days he\u2019s nice; some days he wants to argue, scream, yell,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was the jealous type. He was jealous of all of us. He was jealous of each and every person that came around my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
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