2 Arrests Made In The Killing Of A Brooklyn 1-Year Old

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2 Arrests Made In The Killing Of A Brooklyn 1-Year Old

Hours before mourners began filing past the open coffin of a 16-month-old  Brooklyn boy who was fatally shot in his stroller last weekend, detectives on Friday broke into a Pennsylvania apartment and arrested two suspects in the killing.

The arrests were the culmination of a five-day manhunt that stretched from the Brownsville neighborhood, where a .45-caliber bullet ended the life of the boy, Antiq Hennis, to Maryland and Pennsylvania, where investigators suspected the fugitives had gone to hide with relatives or friends.

Yet that was cold comfort to the hundreds of people gathered at the Grace Funeral Chapel in Ozone Park, Queens. Some wore T-shirts bearing a message written with childlike punctuation: “im ok mommy grandpa will take good care of me.”

Surrounded by nine clusters of white balloons and dressed in a white suit and a white Yankees cap, Antiq (pronounced an-TEEK) lay with his hands folded at his waist in a small white coffin. His eyelashes curled upward; his face appeared to glisten.

The search for the suspects, Daquan Breland, 23, and Daquan Wright, 19, was complicated from the start by the boy’s father, Anthony Hennis, who had been pushing Antiq in the stroller when the shooting occurred and appeared to have been the target. According to the police, he refused to answer questions.

But others in Brownsville, where gun violence among young men is despairingly common, did come forward. On Friday, the police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, said that a witness told investigators that Mr. Wright handed a pistol to Mr. Breland, who fired four shots. Two bullets hit the stroller; one struck Antiq in the head.

The shooting, on the corner of Livonia Avenue and Bristol Street, shocked the neighborhood and drew condemnation from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and candidates seeking to replace him next year.

Source: NY Times

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