Mom of 14-year-old NYC boy killed by cousin, 12, reveals her heartbreak: ‘My boy was so beautiful’
NY Post
The mom of the Brooklyn 14-year-old fatally shot by his 12-year-old cousin wept Tuesday as she told The Post about her “beautiful’’ boy — and how his clean clothes are still folded on his bed, waiting for him to put them away.
“My baby was everything,” said Tiffany Grant, 35, at a growing memorial outside her mother’s Dean Street home in Crown Heights, where her son Jasai Guy spent part of his youth.
“No one is perfect, but he was very close to it — maybe that 1% of it was when he didn’t want to do the dishes,” she chuckled through tears.
“His books are at home in his room on a bookshelf,’’ she said sadly. “His clothes that I washed are on his bed waiting for him to put away.”
The mom’s heartbreak was revealed as authorities released grisly new details about the shooting — including how Jasai was shot through the heart by an illegal, sawed-off shotgun.
Jasai and his younger cousin were playing at their paternal grandfather’s home, where the victim’s firefighter dad also lives, on Osborn Street in Brownsville around 10:30 a.m. Sunday when a shotgun believed to belong to the father went off, police and law-enforcement sources have said.
