A 16-year-old boy playing basketball at a Brooklyn park was
fatally shot in the head Friday, authorities said.
Timothy Oyebola lived in Jamaica, Queens and attended
Brooklyn Ascend HS.
He was in the Chester Playground in Brownsville at 4 p.m.
when he was gunned down.
“As they were playing, shots were fired into the park. The
shots were fired quite a distance away — over 100 feet,” said NYPD Deputy Chief
Michael Kemper.
The high-achieving academic teen and his sister came to the
US from Lagos in 2013.
“My son was a calm, quiet, obedient child, ” grieving dad
David Oyebola told The Post.
“He’s intelligent. He loved sports and basketball. Very
ambitious. He’s a boy who had a brighter future. He was constantly going for
what he wanted to do in life. He wanted to become a doctor or an engineer.”
Poor kid. May his soul rest in peace.
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