✔️ 2022-09-05 02:53:00 – Paris/France.
The distraught mother of a 17-year-old Queens girl who was shot while sitting in the passenger seat of a car told the Post on Sunday that the gun may have fired accidentally when the shooter was playing with it tear.
The 15-year-old suspect had the gun with him in the back seat when Shantasia O'Brian was shot in the back, her mother Karen O'Brian said in an interview. The alleged shooter was the younger brother of the victim's boyfriend, who was in the driver's seat during the fatal incident, O'Brian said.
“I don't know what he was doing with a gun. It makes no sense, why do you have to play with a gun? O'Brian said of the alleged teenage shooter.
“And he was there with a gun and he shot her. The officer told me he was playing with the gun and it was an accident. It was an accident, but I lost my child and she can't come back.
The boy was charged on Saturday with manslaughter, second-degree felony possession of a weapon and tampering with physical evidence, cops said.
O'Brian, 44, said authorities told him Shantasia may not have known the gun was in the car.
"So she got shot and didn't even know what was going on," she said from her Queens Village home.
The mother does not understand how the teenager "played with the gun". Ellis Kaplan O'Brian's daughter, Shantasia, was shot in the back while in the passenger seat. Ellis Kaplan
She said police also told her they didn't know more because the suspect's parents had hired a lawyer.
“So they don't know where he got the gun from. They don't know where the gun came in,” O'Brian said.
"They don't know what happened," she continued. “They just know she was the passenger in the front seat and he was in the back, playing with a gun, and he accidentally shot her. »
All the more devastatingly, Shantasia was home for the weekend from Stony Brook University on Long Island where she was a freshman to celebrate her 18th birthday on Saturday.
On the night of the shooting, his mother had planned to take him out partying. She now regrets picking her up on Thursday to take her home.
"And now I have this guilt on my conscience," O'Brian said.
When she received a phone call from Shantasia's cell phone shortly after 17 p.m., instead of her daughter on the other line, it was the teenager's boyfriend whom O'Brian did not know she had.
"He said, 'Shanny was shot.' I started screaming. I said, 'Who is it?' and he wouldn't say who he was,” O'Brian recalled.
“He said, 'They're taking him to the hospital.' I said, 'Which hospital? What hospital? And he said, 'When we find out, we'll let you know.'
Shantasia was home for the weekend from Stony Brook University on Long Island. Google Maps The teenager's boyfriend called her mother to tell her that her daughter had been shot. Ellis Kaplan
Shantasia was rushed to Jamaican Hospital via EMS where she was pronounced dead just before 18 p.m.
The aspiring pharmacist was excited about college, O'Brian said. Since elementary school, she never got into trouble and was a straight student.
"So it really hurts me that it's just that." That's it? Shanny just left and that's it? I can't accept this. I don't think it's fair on her either," O'Brian said.
“This boy doesn't know how many lives he has ruined. My heart is in shambles.
Shantasia leaves behind three siblings, including her little sister who asked her mother why doctors couldn't give her big sister a new heart to live with.
“I tell him, 'It doesn't work that way.' She said, "'Mom, will I never see her again?' I said, 'No, Shanny is gone. She left.' ”
SOURCE: Reviews News
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