Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, on Friday told subway users he would encourage them not to use their phones or headphones while riding the transit system, amid rising crime.
“I shot him three times with a .357 from Virginia. I thought I missed him so I shot him again,” Jethro Jacobs told police, prosecutor Christine Occhiogrosso said during the suspect’s arraignment in Queens Criminal Court Sunday.
Keyondre Russell, 18, is being held without bail in the shooting death of Jayjon Burnett, 15, who was killed Friday during a dispute between two groups on a Far Rockaway A train in New York.