{"id":291042,"date":"2026-07-09T02:35:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291042\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T02:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:35:05","slug":"boyfriend-arrested-after-young-mom-is-shot-to-death-in-brooklyn-home-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/291042\/","title":{"rendered":"Boyfriend arrested after young mom is shot to death in Brooklyn home: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

The boyfriend of a young mother shot to death<\/a> in the Brooklyn apartment they shared with their one-year-old daughter has been arrested for her murder, cops said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Tahj Nelson, 23, was arrested and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon on Monday, a week after 24-year-old Tatiana Pettus was fatally shot in the neck<\/a> inside their basement apartment on Foster Ave. near E. 29th St. in Flatbush, police said.<\/p>\n

The couple lived in the apartment with their daughter and the suspect\u2019s mother. Nelson was at large for about a week before he was arrested in Brooklyn Monday around 9:15 a.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a total shock to us,\u201d the victim\u2019s uncle, Sabata Pettus, told the Daily News. \u201cShe brought him into our family and we accepted him wholeheartedly. He was quiet but he was one of ours. We can\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neighbors in the four-story apartment building heard an argument coming from the apartment and called 911. Medics rushed Tatiana to Kings County Hospital, but she could not be saved. The couple\u2019s daughter was being babysat elsewhere by relatives when the slaying occurred, Tatiana\u2019s uncle said.<\/p>\n

The couple, who had been together several years, appeared to have a \u201csolid\u201d relationship, Sabata said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t even know how it got to this, because neither one of them, especially him, this is not something that they showed us,\u201d he said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t his character. This is a very mild-mannered young man. Very quiet, very keep-to -himself. Not no knucklehead in the street. There was no reason for us to fear him. This is something that came out of the blue,\u201d he added. \u201cThis is a total, total shock to us and it\u2019s just unexplainable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tatiana\u2019s father will now likely raise her 1-year-old daughter, the uncle said.\u2029\u201cShe\u2019s gonna grow up without her parents,\u201d he said of the baby. \u201cShe lost her mother to senseless violence and whatever happens to the father \u2026 it\u2019s unfortunate.\u201d\u2029\u201cThis is an unfortunate situation where young men now don\u2019t have mental intelligence and there\u2019s too much access to weapons. That\u2019s how something like this just happens,\u201d he added. \u201cThe congressmen, the citizens, the judges \u2014 they need to do a better job of getting control of gun access.\u201d\u2029The couple worked night shifts together at an Amazon warehouse hub. Tatiana worked there first and helped her boyfriend secure a job there, too, her uncle said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a very big loss for our family. In a family of men, she was our baby girl,\u201d Sabata added. \u201cTatiana was what brought the whole family together. She was a very intelligent, go-get-em, loving person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nelson is being held without bail until his next court appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The boyfriend of a young mother shot to death in the Brooklyn apartment they shared with their one-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,111190,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-291042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-mom-shot-to-death-brooklyn","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291042","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=291042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}