{"id":752318,"date":"2026-04-25T14:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/752318\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T14:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:16:19","slug":"suspected-gunman-in-murder-of-15-year-old-in-queens-arrested-after-fleeing-to-jamaica-nypd-commissioner-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/752318\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected gunman in murder of 15-year-old in Queens arrested after fleeing to Jamaica, NYPD commissioner says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City police have arrested the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/person-of-interest-shooting-death-teen-st-albans-queens\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">suspected gunman<\/a> in the murder of 15-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/jaden-pierre-vigil-roy-wilkins-park-st-albans-queens\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jaden Pierre<\/a>, who was fatally shot at a park in St. Albans, Queens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nypdpc\/status\/2048004011433890198?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">said<\/a> 18-year-old Zahir Davis fled to Jamaica after the shooting, and that he was taken into custody Friday night when his return flight landed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Davis, of Brooklyn, was charged with murder.<\/p>\n<p>Police named Davis a person of interest nearly a week after the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/15-year-old-boy-shot-dead-st-albans-queens-nypd\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 16 shooting<\/a>\u00a0on a basketball court in Roy Wilkins Park. They said he was affiliated with the BG4 gang, which operates in southeast Queens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jaden-pierre-st-albans-queens-shooting-victim.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"jaden-pierre-st-albans-queens-shooting-victim.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Jaden Pierre<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe the shooting stemmed from an ongoing dispute between Davis and Pierre.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors and elected officials gathered at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/jaden-pierre-vigil-roy-wilkins-park-st-albans-queens\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a vigil for Pierre<\/a> at the park on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have failed you. Your son should be home,&#8221; Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said to the slain boy&#8217;s family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was feeling sad for him that it happened to him and his family. That really shouldn&#8217;t happen to anyone,&#8221; an 11-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p>New York Attorney General Letitia James urged the gunman to turn himself in during her remarks, adding that the NYPD knew who and where they were.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City police have arrested the suspected gunman in the murder of 15-year-old Jaden Pierre, who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":752319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,29458,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-752318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-st-albans","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116465774651235098","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}