Teen identified as shooter who gunned down 13-year-old boy in Queens: NYPD | amNewYork

"We're looking at his social media posts, and from just based on his social media posts, it appears that he may have some affiliation or association with SSM, which he posts quite frequently. That's the Sex Money Murder gang, it's a Blood subset, Chief Kenny said Thursday. This is just based on his own social media posts where he refers to himself as J2 guns."

"Police say they have identified the shooter as 16-year-old Jason Sykes, who goes by the nickname Flex and is known to cause trouble in the area. Police say he is being hunted by the Regional Fugitive Task Force. NYPD Police say they have identified a person of interest in the Queens killing of a 13-year-old boy in a Dunkin' Donuts parking lot earlier this week."

"Chief Kenny reported that Samuel's heart-wrenching slaying unfolded as he was hanging out with a group of kids outside of the coffee shop around 8:15 a.m. on Monday before school, when another teen pulled up to them riding a razor scooter and brandished a firearm. The perpetrator gets back on a scooter to leave. The crowd starts yelling at him again. He comes back, at which point he gets into a physical fight with our victim. They start throwing punches at each other,"

A 13-year-old boy, Sanjay Samuel, was shot in the head in Cambria Heights on Sept. 22 while walking to school and died two days later. Police classify the killing as a gang dispute and say social media posts indicate Samuel referenced SSM (Sex Money Murder) and called himself J2 guns, though he has no criminal history and is not in the gang database. The shooting occurred around 8:15 a.m. outside a coffee shop when a teen on a razor scooter pulled up, brandished a firearm, returned after a confrontation, engaged in a physical fight, and a shot was fired. Police identified 16-year-old Jason Sykes, nicknamed Flex, as the shooter and say he is being sought by the Regional Fugitive Task Force. A nearby motorist followed the fleeing shooter and attempted to persuade him to surrender.

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