The teen gangbanger charged with shooting a Brooklyn fifth-grader in the head coldly laughed when cops told him he was being arrested for the sickening act, prosecutors said.
Kane Cooper, 17, was held without bail last night after being charged with attempted murder in the horrific Friday shooting of Tayloni Mazyck, 11, who is permanently paralyzed after getting caught in gang crossfire.
“When the defendant was told he was being arrested for shooting a child, his response was laughter,” the prosecutor said at Cooper’s arraignment hearing in Brooklyn Criminal court.
“Her spine is severed and she will be paralyzed for life.”
Tayloni’s devastated relatives yesterday kept vigil at her Columbia Presbyterian bedside.
Tayloni, nicknamed Tutu, had been standing at her front door in Bedford-Stuyvesant when the gunfire erupted. She was paralyzed “from the neck down,” her father, Robert Mazyck, said.
“As of this point, Tayloni can’t move anything. She just has tingles in both her arms,” the distraught dad said. “When you touch her arms, both arms hurt. Nothing else is working. Her time to walk around is gone. Even with surgery, there is no guarantee.”
The child’s aunt said the bullet “went into her mouth, down her throat and ricocheted through her spine.”
“I can’t feel my body!” Tayloni said, according to her aunt, Michelle Fitzpatrick.
Tayloni was slated to graduate from PS 44 later this month.
“I am just so tired of this,” Robert Mazyck said. “You can’t stand in front of your own building? Not only was [Tayloni] standing here, my 7-month-old granddaughter was out here too. What’s the matter with people?”
“Why did this have to happen to my sister?” said Tayloni’s heartsick brother, Daiquan. “Without her, I don’t know where I’d be.“
Cooper has a rap sheet that includes assault on a cop. He was out of jail on $7,500 bail in a gun-related incident when Tayloni was hit.
Cooper, who attends Boys and Girls HS, was aiming at a Bloods gang member, police sources said.
Cops found 10 shell casings and one bullet fragment at the scene. No gun was recovered, according to prosecutors.