BROOKLYN, NY \u2014 Police have arrested a teenager who is accused of fatally shooting his mother’s boyfriend in a Brooklyn apartment last week. <\/p>\n
A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. He has been identified as Tristan Hightower, who is the victim’s stepson, police said. <\/p>\n
Jamal Davis, 43, was found on the floor with gunshot wounds to his chest and arm in an apartment at 75 Cumberland Walk in Fort Greene on April 12. <\/p>\n
He was rushed by medics to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n
According to reports, the shooting may have stemmed from an argument after Hightower was smoking weed inside the home earlier in the morning. <\/p>\n
An investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN, NY \u2014 Police have arrested a teenager who is accused of fatally shooting his mother’s boyfriend in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-205618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205618","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=205618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}