Frederick Inexperienced, a Bronx man who authorities mentioned has 4 prior arrests, was charged Tuesday with tried homicide, assault and weapons possession within the capturing of New York Jets defensive again Kris Boyd on Nov. 16 outdoors a Midtown restaurant.
Inexperienced, 20, was hiding in his girlfriend’s condominium in upstate New York and recognized by way of social media posts and a Crime Stoppers tip, police sources instructed the New York Every day Information. U.S. marshals took him into custody Monday in Amherst, N.Y., a suburb of Buffalo.
Boyd, 29, was strolling out of Asian fusion restaurant Sei Much less with two teammates and one other pal round 2 a.m. when he was shot within the stomach and brought to Bellevue Hospital in essential situation. The bullet lodged close to his proper lung within the pulmonary artery, police mentioned.
He posted on social media Nov. 19 that he was “beginning to breathe alone,” however two weeks in the past was readmitted to the hospital due to well being problems. Nevertheless, Boyd had recovered sufficient that final week he made a shock look on the Jets’ apply facility and attended a particular groups assembly.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny mentioned at a information convention final month that the capturing occurred after a gaggle of 4 to 5 males “chirped” at Boyd and his companions outdoors the restaurant, making enjoyable of their trendy apparel.
The confrontation continued when Boyd, Jets teammates Irvin Charles and Jamien Sherwood and one other pal left the restaurant minutes later after deciding to not dine there. As they left, the identical group once more started to “verbally insult them, and as soon as once more, questioning their clothes,” Kenny mentioned.
A brawl ensued and one of many fighters — later allegedly recognized as Inexperienced — fired two rounds from a gun, putting Boyd. Investigators launched surveillance footage of the gunman and requested the general public’s assist figuring out him.
In an e mail to The Instances on Nov. 17, an NYPD spokesman mentioned, “The sought particular person is described as male, medium complexion. He was final seen sporting a black cap, black sweatshirt, black pants, multi-colored sneakers, and carrying a black bookbag.”
Inexperienced has 4 prior arrests, together with one in 2024 for reckless endangerment and one other in 2018 for theft that was sealed as a result of he was a juvenile, police instructed the Every day Information.
Boyd’s teammates have been delighted to see him on the apply facility Dec. 3.
“I’ve had pals that didn’t survive gunshot wounds, so to have the ability to see him strolling round with a smile on his face, be capable to [talk] with him, I imply, it’s all the time a blessing,” Jets edge rusher Jermaine Johnson instructed ESPN. “[Guns] aren’t toys and so they’re very lethal, so the truth that he walked away from it’s a blessing.”
Boyd is in his first 12 months with the Jets after enjoying the final two seasons with the Houston Texans and from 2019-2022 with the Minnesota Vikings, who drafted him within the seventh spherical in 2019 out of Texas.
