{"id":204117,"date":"2026-04-21T00:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204117\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T00:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:59:08","slug":"vigil-held-in-st-albans-queens-park-for-slain-15-year-old-jaden-pierre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204117\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigil held in St. Albans, Queens park for slain 15-year-old Jaden Pierre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old boy who was gunned down last week was honored by his Queens community on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Mourners gathered for a vigil at Roy Wilkins Park in St. Albans, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/15-year-old-boy-shot-dead-st-albans-queens-nypd\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">where Jaden Pierre was shot and killed on Thursday night<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>People of all ages came out to pay their respects.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was feeling sad for him that it happened to him and his family. That really shouldn&#8217;t happen to anyone,&#8221; one 11-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Pierre was shot in the chest following a dispute on the basketball court. He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital in critical condition, but later died.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/albans.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Suspect in teen shooting death \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Police are searching for a suspect following the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy in Queens on April 16, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                NYPD Crime Stoppers<\/p>\n<p>So far, no arrests have been made, but on Friday police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/nypd-releases-image-of-person-wanted-in-connection-to-queens-teens-shooting-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">released photos of someone wanted in connection with the shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New York Attorney General Letitia James took to social media not long after the shooting to denounce the gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My heart is heavy tonight after we lost a 15-year-old to a senseless act of gun violence. I&#8217;m praying for his family, loved ones, and community. I will continue to work tirelessly every day to end gun violence in New York,&#8221; James wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. said Friday that Pierre&#8217;s family had just moved into the neighborhood. He called the shooting a senseless and horrific tragedy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have work to do as a community,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have to give these young people an outlet, otherwise they&#8217;re going to be in the park with mayhem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Richards Jr. stressed the importance of expanding youth programs for after-school and in the summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is asked to call the NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers hotline at\u00a01-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish,\u00a01-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit a tip\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">via their website<\/a>\u00a0or via DM on Twitter,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy who was gunned down last week was honored by his Queens community on Monday night.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[787,9,24,63,103,122,124,123,1236],"class_list":{"0":"post-204117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-gun-violence","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-nypd","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-headlines","15":"tag-queens-news","16":"tag-st-albans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204117","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=204117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}