“This boy doesn’t know how many lives he ruined. I don’t think it’s fair to her, either,” O’Brian said. That’s it? Shanny’s just gone and that’s just it? I can’t accept that. “So this really hurts me that that’s just it. Since elementary school, she never got into trouble and was a straight-A student. The aspiring pharmacist was excited about college, O’Brian said. Shantasia was rushed to Jamaica hospital via EMS where she was pronounced dead just before 6 p.m. Google Maps The teen’s boyfriend called her mother saying her daughter was shot. “He said, ‘They’re taking her to the hospital.’ I said, ‘What hospital? What hospital?’ And he said, ‘When we find out we’ll let you know.’” Shantasia was home for the weekend from Stony Brook University on Long Island. I said, ‘Who’s this?’ and he wouldn’t say who he was,” O’Brian recalled. “He said, ‘Shanny’s been shot.’ I started screaming. When she received a phone call from Shantasia’s cell phone shortly after 5 p.m., instead of her daughter on the other line it was the teen’s boyfriend O’Brian didn’t know she had. “And now I have this guilt on my conscience,” O’Brian said. She now regrets picking her up Thursday to bring her home. The night of the shooting, her mother planned on taking her out to celebrate. “They just know she was the passenger in the front seat and he was in the back, playing with a gun, and he accidentally shot her.”Īll the more devastating, Shantasia was home for the weekend from the College of Staten Island where she was a freshman to celebrate her 18th birthday Saturday. “They don’t know what happened,” she continued. They don’t know where the gun came into play,” O’Brian said.īoy, 15, arrested in 17-year-old Shantasia O’Brian’s fatal shooting: NYPD “So they don’t know where he got the gun from. She said police also told her they don’t know more because the suspect’s parents lawyered up. The mother does not understand how the teen was “playing with the gun.” Ellis Kaplan O’Brian’s daughter Shantasia was shot in back while in the passenger seat. “So she got shot and didn’t even know what was going on,” she said from her Queens Village home. O’Brian, 44, said authorities told her Shantasia possibly didn’t know the gun was in the car. The boy was charged Saturday with manslaughter, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and tampering with physical evidence, cops said. It was an accident, but I lost my child and she can’t come back.” The officer told me he was playing with the gun and it was an accident. “And he was there with a gun and he shot her. It doesn’t make any sense, why do you have to play with a gun?” O’Brian said of the alleged teen shooter. “I don’t know what he was doing with a gun. The alleged shooter was the younger brother of the victim’s boyfriend, who was in the driver’s seat during the deadly incident, O’Brian said. The 15-year-old suspect had the weapon with him in the back seat when Shantasia O’Brian was shot in the back, mother Karen O’Brian said in an interview. The distraught mom of a 17-year-old Queens girl shot dead while sitting in the passenger’s seat of a car told The Post Sunday that the gun may have fired accidentally when the gunman was fooling around with the weapon. #MOTHERS X AND O COOKIES DRIVER#Gunfight erupts in Manhattan after driver hits man with carġ dead, 3 injured in spate of overnight NYC stabbings and shootings Teen, 15, arrested in shooting at Pennsylvania amusement park that hurt 3ĭriver arrested in NYC crash, gunfight was seeking revenge: police sources
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