Grief-stricken NYC mom laments shooting of 15-year-old son as 5 teens are fatally shot in less than a week

The grief-stricken mother of a 15-year-old boy gunned down successful Brooklyn this week railed against soaring metropolis younker unit — saying it “doesn’t make sense.”

Tristan Sanders – 1 of 5 teenagers fatally changeable since nan spurt of unit began Thursday – was mortally struck successful nan thorax astir 7:20 p.m. Sunday connected nan grounds of nan New York City Housing Authority’s Albany Houses connected St. Marks Avenue successful Crown Heights, constabulary said.

Sanders – an only kid who had conscionable started his freshman twelvemonth astatine Boys and Girls High School, loved “music, hoops and family,” shaken mom Shanae Sanders told The Post successful an exclusive Tuesday greeting interview.

“He was a bully kid. He was a happy boy. He didn’t merit this,” Shanae Sanders recalled of her slain boy arsenic her legs rattled and she tapped her fingers connected her thigh earlier cradling her look successful her hands.

She past saw Tristan “a fewer hours” earlier nan shooting arsenic he near “for a candle-lighting for a friend.”

“We said connected nan telephone and we said we loved each other,” she said of their past conversation.

Shanae Sanders said she learned nan devastating news erstwhile constabulary knocked connected her door, and past went to nan Kings County Hospital Center, wherever cops said Tristan succumbed to his injuries.

“I told him I loved him,” she said.

Her son’s decease “left an emptiness successful me,” nan devastated mother added.

Tristan’s distraught mom added that she was “always going to miss waking him up for school.”

The grieving mom was bewildered by nan caller onslaught of unit targeting teens.

“This s—t is crazy,” she said. “It doesn’t make immoderate sense.”

Tristan’s autn Taniqua Quashie said nan metropolis and Mayor Eric Adams “need to do more” to conflict nan problem.

“It’s crazy. It’s sad,” Quashie said astir her nephew and nan different teens precocious killed. “It shouldn’t beryllium happening….never thought this would hap here.

“We want justness for [Tristan].”

Tristan, 1 of 16 grandchildren, was looking guardant to joining his precocious schoolhouse hoops squad and “couldn’t hold to turn taller,” Quashie said.

He played hoops pinch his cousins – immoderate of whom haven’t yet been told what happened.

“The ones that cognize are taking it hard,” Quashie said. “They are crying. They are still trying to process it.”

“We had immoderate [others] complete for nan weekend, they were pinch him,” she added. “They don’t know. They only cognize thing is incorrect but they don’t cognize what. We are going to bring them complete and show them.”

Meanwhile, Quashie said her nephew’s decease has near her “in shock.”

“I still can’t judge it,” she said. “We are quiet wrong correct now. It’s difficult connected [his mother]. She has hardly slept since this happened. She is conscionable quiet and stays by herself. She doesn’t look astatine his pictures.

“It’s for illustration a nightmare,” Tristan’s aunt added. “I still expect him to travel done nan door. He was present everyday. I still consciousness his beingness successful here.”

The motive for Tristan’s execution remained nether investigation Tuesday.

Tristan was killed astir 24 hours earlier Joshua Sparrow, 18, was changeable successful nan caput and torso connected Rev. James A. Polite Avenue adjacent East 164th Street successful Longwood conscionable aft 7 p.m. Monday, cops said.

Sparrow was taken to Lincoln Medical Center, but did not survive, constabulary said.

Investigators judge nan shooting whitethorn person been gang-related, sources said.

A time earlier, Taearion Mungo, 16, was fatally changeable successful nan thorax astir 11:45 p.m. Saturday extracurricular a building connected Auburn Place wrong NYCHA’s Walt Whitman Houses successful Fort Greene, cops said.

He was rushed to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, wherever he was besides pronounced dead, constabulary said.

That shooting whitethorn person besides stemmed from pack violence, sources said.

Mungo, who lived successful nan adjacent Ingersoll Houses, has 2 anterior gun-related arrests, 1 of which is sealed, according to constabulary sources.

His astir caller apprehension came astir 1:30 a.m. June 16 – erstwhile he was recovered successful possession of a loaded weapon during a car stop, nan sources said.

At that time, investigators said he was affiliated pinch a section gang, according to nan sources.

Another teen, identified by nan NYPD arsenic Malachi Deberry, 15, was changeable successful nan caput connected Lenox Road adjacent Rockaway Parkway successful Brownsville astir 8:40 p.m. Friday, cops said.

Deberry – who lived respective blocks distant – was rushed to Maimonides Medical Center, wherever he was initially listed successful captious information earlier succumbing to his injuries, constabulary said.

Police are still investigating nan circumstances starring to nan shooting.

The surge of teen unit began erstwhile Clarence Jones, 16, was fatally changeable early Thursday successful Harlem, cops said.

Jones was blasted successful nan torso conscionable aft 1:30 a.m. astatine West 124 Street and Lenox Avenue, authorities said.

He was rushed to Harlem Hospital, wherever he was pronounced dead.

Jones’ begetter collapsed astatine nan segment and cried retired that his teenage boy had been “taken” from him, gut-wrenching photos showed.

Police are seeking 2 suspects connected Razor scooters, sources said.

Law enforcement sources blamed nan violence connected nan state’s contentious Raise nan Age rule – enacted respective years agone – which raised nan property of criminal work to 18, and allowed for criminal defendants to stay successful juvenile accommodation arsenic aged arsenic nan property of 21.

“There needs to beryllium much deference successful our family tribunal system,” 1 root said. “The strategy put successful spot by nan Raise nan Age enactment has not efficaciously deterred juveniles from committing heinous crime. The very rule meant to protect nan young is successful truth hurting them.“

Another griped, “You decriminalized crime for juveniles and now you’re shocked that they’re each dying successful nan street?”

A full of 1,827 kids nether nan property of 18 were victims of felony assaults successful nan metropolis truthful acold this twelvemonth done Sept. 30, nan latest information available, nan NYPD said Tuesday.

That’s up from nan aforesaid play successful 2023, erstwhile location were 1,709 victims.

Murders, however, are down – pinch 17 minors killed wrong nan metropolis done Sept. 30, cops said.

A full of 27 young group were killed during that play past year.