He was steppin’ out with a Stepper.
The head of the famed Brooklyn Steppers marching band — a group whose high-profile gigs peaked this year with a spot in President Obama’s inauguration — has been bounced for allegedly having sex with a 17-year-old band member.
Although 31-year-old Tyrone Brown admitted to school investigators that his relationship with the girl was inappropriate, he denied rumors that things had turned sexual during a band trip to Bermuda last year.
His estranged wife Kendra Brown, however, told probers that he had confessed to having bedded the girl.
Regardless, investigators said they collected enough evidence — including nearly 3,000 text messages between Brown and the girl in one month, their adjoining hotel rooms in Bermuda, as well as Brown’s own admissions that the pair had grown overly close — to bar him from future work with the Department of Education.
“Any time we make a finding of an inappropriate relationship we recommend termination,” said special schools investigator Richard Condon.
Brown — who last month stepped down as the executive director of the Brooklyn Music and Arts Program, which runs the band initiative — could not be reached for comment.