Mom of 15-year old gunned down in NYC park has vulgar message for killer, others who filmed violence

The mother of a 15-year-old boy gunned down in a Queens park unleashed a vulgarity-laced tirade against his killer and the heartless young people who filmed the deadly violence.

“You are all p—ies,” 33-year-old Shanelle Weston, the mother of 15-year-old Jaden Pierre, told the Daily News. “P—ies. You all beat on my son and that wasn’t enough.”

Jaden was found with a bullet wound to his chest around 6:20 p.m. inside Roy Wilkins Park in St. Albans on Thursday, according to the NYPD.

Police officers in vests with "POLICE" and "NYPD" standing in a park next to a sign for "NAUTILUS PLAYGROUND".
Jaden Pierre was found with a bullet wound to his chest around 6:20 p.m. inside Roy Wilkins Park in St. Albans on Thursday, according to the NYPD.  Peter Gerber

Video of the incident – which sources believe may have been gang-related – posted by former Mayor Eric Adams shows the youth being pummeled by a gang of kids, before a depraved shooter wearing a gray hoodie and gray pants pulls out a gun and blasts Jaden in the chest.

“My son was shot in the chest. My family, my community, everybody is devastated,” Weston told the Daily News.

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The young man’s mom told the outlet that her son had asked his father if he could go to the park to play basketball that afternoon – not revealing that he was really going to participate in a water balloon fight organized on social media.

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Cops are looking for a shooter wearing a gray hoodie and gray pants. DCPI

A man puts his arm around a woman in a green shirt, while another woman stands nearby.
Jaden’s family and the community are devestated by his loss, his mother said. Brigitte Stelzer

“If I had known about the water-balloon fight, I would have said no,” Weston said. “There was nothing for him there but trouble.”

The young man’s mom told the the outlet that her son was a ninth grader at Eagle Academy for Young Men in Queens and was just about to start a new job over the summer.

“It was going to be his first job,” Weston said. “He was so excited and proud.”

Jaden Pierre is pictured
The 15-year-old boy was a ninth grade student at Eagle Academy for Young Men in Queens and was going to begin working this summer, according to his mother. Facebook / Rev-chaplain Peter Jones

The victim’s sister also ripped into the bystanders, who “did nothing” while her brother was beaten and shot.

“They treated it all as entertainment. He was already beat up. He was helpless and they shot him,” 17-year-old Nellie Pierre told the News.

The shooter was still on the loose Sunday.

Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).