One of two juveniles arrested after a shooting that left a 24-year-old Brooklyn man dead inside a BMW was charged with gun possession, police said.
The 15-year-old teen, whose name was not released by cops due to his age, is not linked to the murder. The other juvenile was released.
Daequan Buckley was shot multiple times in the stomach by a passenger in the car he was driving outside Magic Fingers Studio Hair Salon near E. 54th St. and Church Ave. in East Flatbush about 8:20 p.m. April 27, said police and witnesses.
Family remembered Buckley as a doting dad of a 4-year-old who was a whiz with computers.
“He could break down a computer and fix it back,” said Ingrid Homer, 65, the grandmother of Buckley’s half-sister.
“He’s very talented. He went to a good school. I don’t know if he taught himself,” Homer told the Daily News.
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NYPD officers search for evidence on Church Ave. and E. 54th St. in East Flatbush after the fatal shooting Saturday. (Jeff Bachner/New York Daily News)
Another relative reflected on the victim’s childhood charm.
“I used to watch Daequan as a very young kid. He was very, very lovable and he’s very smart. He’s very educated,” said Ayanna Homer, Buckley’s half-sister’s mother.
“My daughter is his sister, but she is like a sister-mother to him. Whenever anything happens to him, he goes to his sister most of the time,” said Ayanna Homer, 43.
“The shooter was a passenger in the car and the victim was in the driver’s seat,” said a woman who works in the area and witnessed the bloodshed. “They were sitting in the car together.”
“The guy shot him three times, and he got out the car and walked away,” said the witness.
Family said despite his smarts and the advantage of a premium education, Buckley had veered into criminal activity.
“[Buckley’s mother] made sure they got the best education. She always made sure her son got the best education and also my daughter as well,” said Ayanna Homer.
“[He was] very smart, but he made the wrong friends and he went in jail for some time and then he came out,” said Ingrid Homer.
According to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, Buckley was released on parole in 2022 after serving just over three years for gun possession.
More recently, Buckley was busted after he was stopped in Brooklyn on March 14 driving a 2024 black BMW with an Illinois license plate that was reported stolen, said a law enforcement source.
He was charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. The BMW had been pilfered from a rental car company in Boston, said the source.
In the wake of his death, the close-knit family is reeling.
“She’s trying to hold up,” Ayanna Homer said of Buckley’s mother.