DOE worker charged with murder of dedicated father gunned down on NYC street: cops

A city Department of Education worker was arrested and charged with murder Tuesday for her role in the January shooting death of a dedicated father on a Bronx street, according to police.Naya Brown, 26, was taken into custody more than a month after Keon Gill, 44, was gunned down as he and his brother left a restaurant on West 242nd Street at the end of the victim’s birthday celebration near 3 a.m., police and a News 12 report said.Gill, of Middletown in the Hudson Valley, was fatally shot in the chest, while his sibling, 35, suffered a non-life threatening gunshot wound to the knee, the NYPD said.Brown’s arrest comes after another suspect, Pernell Warren, 37, of the Bronx was arrested and charged with murder in the case on Feb.1.Warren was also charged by police with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon charges counts.A third suspect, a man, is also being sought.It’s unclear what role Brown played in the double shooting, but sources said it doesn’t appear she is the alleged shooter.Gill and his brother got into an argument with the suspects outside the restaurant leading to gunfire, sources said.A loved one of Gill previously told the Daily News he was a “dedicated father.”“His world was his kids.

They were his life,” the mother of his children told News 12.Brown lists herself as a project manager for children and families in the DOE dating back to March 2024, according to her LinkedIn profile.An email to the DOE was not immediately returned. ...