At the time of his death, the fifth grader attended
Challenge Preparatory Charter School in Far Rockaway.
Queens Assistant District Attorney Bryan Kotowski said in court that Young had been picked out of three photo arrays by witnesses.
‘The defendant did make efforts to conceal evidence in committing this crime,’ Kotowski told
Acting Supreme Court Justice Toko Serita according to the nypost.
‘When he did speak to police the first time he came in, he was not truthful with respect to his whereabouts and his actions with respect to the crime,’ he said.
‘And that was three days prior to him surrendering himself to the precinct.’