Overview
- Jaden Pierre, 15, was surrounded and beaten at Roy Wilkins Park and then shot in the chest during a Thursday gathering, later dying at Jamaica Hospital.
- The shooter remains at large as the NYPD released images of a person in gray clothing and white sneakers and posted wanted flyers around the playground.
- Detectives are reviewing bystander footage and surveillance clips, and a $3,500 Crime Stoppers reward is offered for tips that lead to an arrest.
- Residents and local reports said about 300 teens came for a planned water-balloon meet-up that turned into a brawl before the gunshot.
- Family members tended a memorial Sunday while the community prepared a Monday vigil expected to draw top city officials, and an online fundraiser is helping pay funeral costs.