{"id":151751,"date":"2026-03-03T23:52:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151751\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T23:52:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:52:33","slug":"doe-worker-charged-with-murder-of-a-dedicated-father-gunned-down-on-nyc-street-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151751\/","title":{"rendered":"DOE worker charged with murder of a &#8216;dedicated father&#8217; gunned down on NYC street: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A city Department of Education worker was arrested and charged with murder Tuesday for her role in the January shooting death of a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/25\/us-news\/dad-shot-dead-after-celebrating-his-bday-in-nyc-sources\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dedicated father on a Bronx street<\/a>, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Naya Brown, 26, was taken into custody more than a month after Keon Gill, 44, was gunned down as he and his brother left a restaurant on West 242nd Street at the end of the victim\u2019s birthday celebration near 3 a.m., police and a <a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/doe-employee-and-bronx-man-charged-with-murder-in-fatal-shooting-of-bronx-father-injuring-his-brother-in-kingsbridge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">News 12 report said.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gill, of Middletown in the Hudson Valley, was fatally shot in the chest, while his sibling, 35, suffered a non-life threatening gunshot wound to the knee, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38664407\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/naya-brown-nyc-doe-employee-122688462.jpg\" alt=\"Naya Brown, a NYC DOE employee.\" class=\"wp-image-38664407\"  \/>Naya Brown, a DOE worker, is charged with murder.  Linkedin<\/p>\n<p>Brown\u2019s arrest comes after another suspect, Pernell Warren, 37, of the Bronx was arrested and charged with murder in the case on Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Warren was also charged by police with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon charges counts.<\/p>\n<p>A third suspect, a man, is also being sought.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear what role Brown played in the double shooting, but sources said it doesn\u2019t appear she is the alleged shooter.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.77777778;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38664375\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/naya-brown-nyc-doe-employee-122688720.jpg\" alt=\"A police vehicle with flashing lights is parked at a crime scene blocked off by yellow &quot;CRIME SCENE DO NOT ENTER&quot; tape.\" class=\"wp-image-38664375\"  \/>The Jan. 25 shooting in the Bronx killed a 44-year-old man. FNTV<\/p>\n<p>Gill and his brother got into an argument with the suspects outside the restaurant leading to gunfire, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>A loved one of Gill previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/25\/man-44-shot-to-death-second-man-wounded-in-bronx-street-clash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told the Daily News<\/a> he was a \u201cdedicated father.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis world was his kids. They were his life,\u201d the mother of his children told News 12. <\/p>\n<p>Brown lists herself as a project manager for children and families in the DOE dating back to March 2024, according to her LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n<p>An email to the DOE was not immediately returned.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A city Department of Education worker was arrested and charged with murder Tuesday for her role in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,57,238,9,24,63,103,3980,129,131,130,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-151751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-murders","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nypd","15":"tag-shootings","16":"tag-the-bronx","17":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","18":"tag-the-bronx-news","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}