A 17-year-old Inver Grove Heights boy is facing murder charges for allegedly fatally shooting a 16-year-old boy in a park in Brooklyn Park this summer.<\/p>\n
Nyzeir A\u2019shoun Reay, 17, was ordered Tuesday to stand trial as an adult on the two counts of second-degree murder with which he\u2019s charged.<\/p>\n
Police began investigating after a shooting at Hartkopf Park on July 5 around 10:48 p.m. Law enforcement said about 50 civilians were at the park when the shooting happened; 16-year-old Immanuel Kowo was found with a gunshot wound to the head. He died at the park.<\/p>\n
RELATED: Teen arrested, 16-year-old identified in fatal Brooklyn Park shooting<\/a><\/p>\n During surveillance the next day, police arrested a co-respondent in Brooklyn Park, recovering a handgun with an extended magazine and a drum magazine, according to the complaint. Forensic analysis showed the cartridge casings from the crime scene were fired from the handgun police recovered.<\/p>\n SEE MORE: After deadly park shooting, Brooklyn Park neighbors weigh safety and police response<\/a><\/p>\n Court records say a witness to the shooting told police that although multiple people blamed the co-respondent for the shooting, they did not see the co-respondent fire the gun. Later, a second witness told police they saw Reay fire at Kowo. <\/p>\n Police say Reay and the co-respondent left the shooting together. Reay was arrested in Illinois and brought back to Minnesota, where he was taken to the juvenile detention center.<\/p>\n On Oct. 19, Reay waived certification proceedings and was ordered to stand trial as an adult, according to court records.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0Brooklyn Park<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Charges<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Crime<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Criminal Charges<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Murder<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Shooting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old Inver Grove Heights boy is facing murder charges for allegedly fatally shooting a 16-year-old boy in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,5796,23072,303,42498,259,9,24,63,1096],"class_list":["post-378147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-park","tag-charges","tag-crime","tag-criminal-charges","tag-murder","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378147","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=378147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}