The devastated mom of slain student Kade Lewin issued a heart-wrenching plea on Monday, April 4, for his son's killers to be caught after the 12-year-old was shot dead last week in a parked minivan in Brooklyn.
According to the New York Post, Suzette Lewin was emotional when talking to reporters outside her Flatlands home, saying, "I'm asking for justice for Kade." Lewin, who was seen clutching a photo of her little boy, pleaded with anyone who had information regarding her son's murder to come forward and help in the investigation.
Lewin fought back the tears while making her plea, saying, "All I'm asking, please come forward. Please, please, somebody say something. I'm asking for justice for Kade. Please. Please, I'm asking for justice, please."
NYC Mayor Eric Adams lends support to Lewin
New York City Mayor Eric Adams was there to lend his support to the grieving Lewin, standing beside the heartbroken mother while holding a pair of the slain boy's sneakers. Adams decried the tragic shooting as he repeatedly asked: "Whose child is next?"
Adams said, "When you understand the realness of this, you understand the urgency, and so when I move with the urgency and people are telling me to slow down, what the hell is wrong with you?"
Adams added that the overwhelming number of the victims are black and brown. The NYC mayor said that they could replace the name of Kade with so many other names and that promising young people have been snatched away from them.
Adams went on to talk about the background of the Lewins, telling CBS News that the entire country should listen to the narrative of this family. Adams said that they are immigrants coming here to the United States looking for a better way of life and not for someone to take their life.
Standing alongside Lewin and Adams was the mother of Jenna Ellis, Kade's 20-year-old cousin, who was in the driver's seat of the car during the shooting. She suffered gunshot wounds to her stomach and jaw and is still recovering in the hospital.
Lewin and Ellis were eating in her vehicle when the shooting transpired
Lewin and Ellis were sitting in the latter's car on Thursday, March 31, eating in East Flatbush when a gunman suddenly opened fire, striking them both. Police said that Kade's niece, an 8-year-old girl, was also in the car at the time of the shooting but was not hit by the bullets.
Jennifer Jones Ellis, who was seen holding her daughter Jenna's portrait, told reporters that she wants the neighborhoods to know that this violence, this gun action, must be stopped. Ellis added that way too many of their people are being targeted, and way too many innocent people are being killed, according to a report by the New York Times.
Ellis said that her nephew is now gone and never to return to this world. Ellis said her daughter is laid up in the hospital, blaming herself for the incident, but that should not be the case. Ellis then asked the question, "Why should she blame herself?"
