NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny<\/a>, Hightower was reportedly smoking weed inside the home that morning, which angered his 38-year-old mother, who is three months pregnant.<\/p>\n\u201cShe didn\u2019t want the baby to be affected by the smoke. So mom first texts her son and tells him to stop smoking weed. That turns into a verbal dispute. The boyfriend gets involved. Verbal turns into physical,\u201d Kenny said.<\/p>\n
Hightower allegedly went into his bedroom and recovered a handgun from a shoebox, then confronted Davis and opened fire, striking him once in the chest and once in the arm before taking off.\n<\/p>\n
EMS rushed Davis to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\n<\/p>\n
Hightower had two previous domestic dispute incidents with his mother, during which the mother made a complaint that he had access to a firearm, police said.\n<\/p>\n
Authorities tracked Hightower to the Bronx on Wednesday afternoon and cuffed him just before 1 p.m. outside of an apartment building. It is believed he had been living on the streets since the shooting.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had a backpack with all his belongings in it, and he looked very disheveled, like he\u2019s been living out on the street,\u201d Kenny said.\n<\/p>\n
Hightower is charged with murder and criminal possession of a loaded firearm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident unfolded at around 10:52 a.m. inside of 75 Cumberland Walk. Cops say they received a 911…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[81323,98,100,99,303,9,24,63,103,104,1096],"class_list":["post-205257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-88-precinct","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205257","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=205257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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