{"id":372196,"date":"2026-10-13T18:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372196\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T18:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:51:07","slug":"boy-17-arrested-for-killing-14-year-old-for-his-kick-scooter-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372196\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 17, arrested for killing 14-year-old for his kick scooter in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teen wanted for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/09\/21\/boy-14-shot-to-death-in-queens-during-possible-scooter-theft\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shooting dead another teen<\/a> in Queens and then taking off with the victim\u2019s kick scooter was arrested Tuesday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old suspect was charged with murder and weapons possession.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the gunman shot Malaki Adams in the Rockaways the afternoon of Sept. 28, confronting him by the Ocean Bay Apartments on Beach Channel Drive near Beach 51st St.<\/p>\n<p>The accused killer shot Adams when the teen put up a fight not to give up the old-school scooter, police sources said. The killer ultimately succeeded in stealing it away from him, police said, and rode off after shooting the victim in the chest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was two shots,\u201d a woman who lives at Ocean Bay Apartments said. \u201cHe fell out in the walkway over there by the basketball court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Police are on the scene after a 14-year-old was shot and killed in the courtyard of the Ocean Bay Houses in Far Rockaway, Queens, on September 21, 2026.\" width=\"4032\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/img_6168.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9233970\" \/>Police are on the scene after Malakai Adams, 14, was shot and killed in the courtyard of the Ocean Bay Houses in Far Rockaway, Queens, on September 21, 2026. (Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed Adams to Cohen Children\u2019s Hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD the next day released a photo of the <a href=\"http:\/\/\u201dHe was full of life, like any other kid,\u201d Malakai\u2019s aunt Ashley Adams said in an exclusive interview. \u201cThe family is grieving really hard right now.\u201d\" rel=\"nofollow\">suspect.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dHe was full of life, like any other kid,\u201d the victim\u2019s aunt Ashley Adams said after his death. \u201cThe family is grieving really hard right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teen wanted for shooting dead another teen in Queens and then taking off with the victim\u2019s kick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[786,137083,9,24,63,103,122,124,123,23565,137084,137082],"class_list":["post-372196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-kick-scooter","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-rockaways","tag-teenage-crime","tag-youth-gun-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372196","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=372196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}