{"id":42136,"date":"2025-11-17T11:32:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/42136\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:32:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:32:16","slug":"bronx-man-killed-in-mistaken-identity-shooting-targeting-his-new-cars-previous-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/42136\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx man killed in mistaken identity shooting targeting his new car’s previous owner"},"content":{"rendered":"

As\u00a0Fareed Adeyi<\/a> sat in his car outside a 24-hour laundromat down the block from his Bronx home last month, he had no way of knowing the recent purchase of the vehicle from one of his closest friends would lead to his own mistaken identity murder.<\/p>\n

But moments later, Adeyi, 26, died in a hail of bullets<\/a> behind the wheel of his Volkswagen Passat outside LaundryBee on White Plains Road near Rosewood St. in Williamsbridge.<\/p>\n

Adeyi worked as an Amazon delivery driver and had big plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wanted to go into the Marines,\u201d said Adeyi\u2019s father, 64-year-old Kareem Adeyi. \u201cIn the Army, you\u2019ll be able to study whatever you want, go to school, learn a trade. You know, become somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those dreams ended when Fareed was killed by a a 16-year-old gunman aided by two accomplices, a father-and-son duo who didn\u2019t know the car had been sold \u2014 and assumed its previous owner, their intended target, was behind the wheel, according to law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n

When the teen gunman allegedly opened fire about 6:40 p.m. on Oct. 7, he meant to kill 26-year-old Carlton McKenzie, who had sold an unwitting Fareed the car just three weeks prior, according to law enforcement sources and the victim\u2019s father.<\/p>\n

Fareed\u2019s father says his son was unaware McKenzie was out on $100,000 bond and battling an attempted murder charge for an August gun battle.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf [McKenzie] had told my son about the trouble, my son would have never bought that car,\u201d Kareem said. \u201cNever, never, never.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI blame him,\u201d Kareem said of McKenzie, who is not believed to have been present at the murder scene. \u201cMy son was his daughter\u2019s godfather. My son was good to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Fareed<\/p>\n

GoFundMe<\/p>\n

Fareed Adeyi. (GoFundMe)<\/p>\n

Devonte Moore, one of the three suspects charged in the mistaken identity murder of Adeyi, had good reason to be out for revenge against McKenzie.<\/p>\n

Moore, 24, and McKenzie got into a shootout with each other across the street from the Gun Hill Road subway station on a commercial stretch of White Plains Road near E. 211th St. about 5:20 p.m. on Aug. 23, prosecutors say.<\/p>\n

Both men were wounded, but Moore, shot twice in the chest, was critically hurt, while McKenzie was shot only in the left thigh.<\/p>\n

Six weeks later, Moore, back on the street after recovering, allegedly went to the laundromat with his father and the teen looking to settle the score with McKenzie, law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as they saw the car, they jumped out not looking at who was in the driver [seat],\u201d Fareed\u2019s father said. \u201cThey just assumed it was Carlton.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fareed, shot multiple times in the chest, died at Jacobi Medical Center, leaving his family, which includes his mother and two older sisters, devastated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey cry for him every day,\u201d the victim\u2019s father said.\u00a0 \u201cThey miss him so much. They can\u2019t get over it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a very cool guy, very gentle and easygoing,\u201d he added. \u201cHe loved everybody. He loved his mother. If I\u2019m not home, he always took good care of the apartment, my car. He was a loving boy. \u2026 We can never, never, never forget.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prosecutors and cops say Moore\u2019s father, 64-year-old Norman Moore, drove his son and the teen, who is not believed to be related to the Moores, to the laundromat and then circled the block as the shooting unfolded and served as the getaway driver.<\/p>\n

\"FareedFareed Adeyi was shot to death while sitting in his newly purchased Volkswagen Passat in the parking lot of a 24 hour laundromat on Oct. 7. (Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The teen allegedly fired four shots.<\/a><\/p>\n

The three suspects in Fareed\u2019s slaying were arrested one by one over the coming weeks, and each was charged with murder.<\/p>\n

Devonte was nabbed\u00a0 Oct. 22, two weeks after the laundromat shooting, and charged with with murder for Fareed\u2019s slaying along with attempted murder for the August gun battle with McKenzie.<\/p>\n

All three murder suspects are being held without bail. The teen\u2019s name was not released by cops because he is underage.<\/p>\n

\"FareedFareed Adeyi was shot to death while sitting in his newly purchased Volkswagen Passat in the parking lot of a 24 hour laundromat on Oct. 7. (Kerry Burke \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, McKenzie is due back in Bronx Criminal Court on Dec. 8 for his next appearance in the attempted murder case stemming from the August gun battle.<\/p>\n

Fareed\u2019s father has seen McKenzie only once since Fareed\u2019s death \u2014 at Fareed\u2019s Oct. 11 funeral, where McKenzie sought to finalize the paperwork for the sale of the car to his slain friend.<\/p>\n

McKenzie could not be reached for comment by the Daily News, and his lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince my son has died [McKenzie] never stepped foot in this house,\u201d Kareem said. \u201cHe never called. But at the funeral, he asked if I would sign the bill of sale. It\u2019s so cruel. I said, \u2018No, I don\u2019t need your car.\u2019 It\u2019s unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Thomas Tracy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As\u00a0Fareed Adeyi sat in his car outside a 24-hour laundromat down the block from his Bronx home last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-42136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42136","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=42136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}