A teen gunman was nabbed within the stray-bullet taking pictures that left a promising 16-year-old Brooklyn basketball participant paralyzed final month, cops stated – as his mother stated the still-hospitalized sufferer pledged to stroll once more.
Alleged shooter Isaiah Greaves, 19, was picked up Dec. 17, weeks after he allegedly shot Nana Donkor within the again whereas the hoops participant waited for a bus at Avenue J and East sixteenth Avenue in Midwood on Nov. 30, police stated.
Greaves – who cops say was joined by an confederate – was apparently aiming for an additional one who Donkor knew and had briefly stopped to greet, the wounded teen advised The Publish days after the taking pictures.
Greaves was charged with tried homicide, felony assault and prison possession of a weapon within the taking pictures, in accordance with the grievance filed towards him. The second suspect remains to be at giant, police stated.
“Getting [Greaves] shouldn’t be going to carry my son again,” Donkor’s mother, Danielle Boakye, advised The Publish by cellphone Tuesday. “My son is harm. He received shot. Them catching him shouldn’t be going to reverse that.”
However she acknowledged that the arrest is “good as a result of [both suspects] should have the punishment of injuring an harmless particular person.”
“They need to be jailed – the punishment is jail so they may by no means shoot anybody else,” Boakye stated. “They need to face the lesson the federal government offers them as a result of they know what they did was very unsuitable. Have a look at my son!”
The stray bullet left Donkor paralyzed from the waist down, in accordance with courtroom docs.
And a month later, it’s nonetheless too “harmful” for docs to take away the spherical – although Donkor is exhibiting many indicators of progress, his mother stated.
“It’s superb. He can switch himself from his mattress to take a seat within the chair,” Boakye stated. “He can elevate one in every of his legs and has emotions within the different one. We thought it wouldn’t occur so quick.”
Docs initially shared the grim prediction that Donkor – a junior on the Far Rockaway Seahorses basketball group who additionally excels in his research – would by no means stroll once more.
“As a result of now we have religion it modified that,” Boakye stated. “The primary day it wasn’t simple. By the grace of God, now we have hope. All the things is exhibiting the boy goes to stroll quickly!”
“He, himself, has religion,” she added. “If you happen to ask, he’ll let you know, ‘I do know I’ll stroll once more and will probably be quickly, too.’”
Greaves was ordered held with out bail throughout his arraignment on Dec. 18 and can reappear in courtroom Jan. 7, the DA’s workplace stated.
