The heartbroken mother of a 15-year-old boy who was beaten and fatally shot inside a Queens parkas dozens of teens callously filmed the slaying on their phones condemned his killer and those who did nothing but watch him die.
Jaden Pierre was shot in the chest inside the Nautilus Playground at Roy Wilkins Park on Thursday, cops said.
Dozens of bystanders can be seen filming as Jaden is savagely beaten, when one of his attackers draws a firearm and shoots him at point-blank range.
“You are all pussies,” Jaden’s mom, 33-year-old Shanelle Weston, said bitterly, in an exclusive interview with the Daily News. “Pussies. You all beat on my son and that wasn’t enough.”
“My son was shot in the chest. My family, my community, everybody is devastated.”
Jaden attended ninth grade at Eagle Academy for Young Men in Queens and was looking forward to starting a new job through the city’s Summer Youth Employment Program, his mother said.
“It was going to be his first job,” Weston said. “He was so excited and proud.”
“Everyone there recording did nothing,” the victim’s older sister, 17-year-old Nellie Pierre, told The News. “They treated it all as entertainment. He was already beat up. He was helpless and they shot him.”
“My son was not a bad kid. He was the sweetest kid and everybody loved him. And I mean everybody,” Weston said. “My son was amazing. He was loving. He loved his dad. He loved his family. He loved me. I just can’t believe this happened to my baby. My heart is broken forever.”