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“We must do all that we can to end to the cycle of violence causing so much grief in our neighborhoods,” DA Katz said.
By Michael V. Cusenza
A borough grand jury has indicted a Far Rockaway man in the shooting death of a 10-year-old boy last month, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Thursday.
Jovan Young, 29, was arraigned Thursday on a three-count indictment charging him with murder in the second degree, assault in the first degree, and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. Young was remanded and ordered to return to court on Sept. 16.
According to the charges, said DA Katz, on June 5, at approximately 9:33 p.m., video surveillance allegedly shows the defendant approach a residence on Beach 45th Street and fire multiple shots directly into the entrance’s screen door. Bullets hit two individuals inside the home. A bullet ripped into 10-year-old Justin Wallace’s abdomen; the boy’s 29-year-old uncle was hit twice—once in the neck and hand.
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The shooting occurred at this 45th Street residence in Far Rockaway.
Justin was rushed to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital where he was pronounced dead. His uncle was treated and released from Jamaica Hospital Medical Center.
“A community is still reeling from this family’s unfathomable loss to gun violence,” Katz said. “As alleged, the defendant fired multiple times into an occupied house without any concern for the lives he was putting in danger, murdering a 10-year-old boy and wounding the child’s uncle. He now faces justice in the courts—and we must do all that we can to end to the cycle of violence causing so much grief in our neighborhoods.”
If convicted, Young faces up to 25 years to life in prison.
