Queensbridge Houses (Wikipedia via Metro Centric CC BY 2.0)
Oct. 9, 2020 By Michael Dorgan
A New Jersey man has been arrested and charged for the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man inside the NYCHA Queensbridge Houses development last month.
Patshawn McMitchell, 24, was arrested Thursday and charged with murder – and several other crimes – in relation to the killing of Dahmel Miller inside 40-12 Vernon Blvd. on Sept. 8, according to police.
McMitchell shot Miller in the abdomen and buttocks following a dispute over a teenage girl who police believe had a romantic involvement with both of them.
Miller, of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, was shot on the first floor of the building at around 9:25 p.m. and then stumbled up the stairs to the third-floor hallway before collapsing, cops said.
He was transferred to Cornell Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Police said they arrested McMitchell in Watertown City in upstate New York – not far from the Canadian border – and brought him back to Queens.
McMitchell has been charged with murder, criminal possession of a weapon and acting in a manner injurious to a child under 17 years of age. He was also charged with menacing, criminal contempt and harassment.
3 Comments
when is the BLM protest over this killing going to take place?
And they still want to keep it.. And they don’t want any jobsite like Amazon nearby.
Crime in Queensbridge? What a shock! There’s been crime there since the buildings went up – I think in the 1950s if not earlier.