Kimani “Kiki” Gray
THE WEAPON: Police say Kimani “Kiki” Gray (inset) pulled this gun on them before cops killed him. (
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Distraught relatives of a 16-year-old Brooklyn boy shot dead by cops claimed yesterday that the teenager didn’t own a gun and they’re “skeptical” about the cops’ version of how the incident went down.
“He got shot six times, and the police didn’t get shot once,” fumed great-aunt Brenda Nunez of the shooting of Kimani “Kiki” Gray of East Flatbush.
“They didn’t get injured. This cannot go like this. This is murder!”
Gray was shot on Saturday after two undercover officers approached the youth and a group of other teens acting suspiciously at about 11:30 p.m. on East 52nd Street near Snyder Street.
Police said the teen whipped out a loaded, .38-caliber revolver and pointed it at the officers after adjusting the waistband on his pants.
One of the officers, an eight-year veteran sergeant, opened fire and shot Gray in the leg and stomach.
The teen was rushed to Kings County Hospital, which is only a few blocks away, but did not survive.
“Police are supposed to be trained to disarm a child, or disarm anybody if they have a gun,” said one of Gray’s cousins, who did not give her name.
Another cousin, Malik Vernon, 17, acknowledged that Gray had been in “trouble” in the past — but insisted he didn’t own a gun.
The teen’s rap sheet includes four prior arrests, including charges of grand larceny, possession of stolen property and inciting a riot, sources said.
“He’d been in fights,” Vernon said. “If I was there, maybe I could have saved his life.”
“Cops say he had a gun,” the cousin added. “If he did have a gun, I could say, ‘Yo, get rid of that, son. That’s not the right thing to have right now.’ ”