Brooklyn Papa spent her life saving children from violence, but could not save his own son
The father of a 24 -year -old girl shot in Brooklyn near Prospect Park spent his life as a youth mentor to work to save children from violence in the streets – but is devastated that he could not save his own son.
“You cannot imagine it.
“And that?” Can you imagine this? “
Manson, who raised Ingram and his brother as a single father, said that he had career and coach of young children in the Fort Greene community, Brooklyn, aimed at keeping them out of trouble.
“I lost my son to that, something I tried to prevent,” he said.
Manson said Ramel had recently started a training program at the Fort Greene community center in the Taj Gibson Foundation to become a mentor for young people.
“It is mentorship and keeping the children out of the street, inspiring them to get into graphics, music or arts,” said Manson. “We are trying to create a safe place to keep older children out of the street so that we don’t have the situation we have at the moment.”
A 21-year-old shooter, Kindle Akinola, fired several times on Ingram in the chest around 8:45 pm Wednesday in front of his grandmother’s apartment where he had lived, two houses from the south-eastern end of Prospect Park in Flatbush, cops said.
Ingram’s grandmother Cynthia Ingram said that he had just finished helping her clean the apartment in Croooke Ave. Near Ocean Ave. And showed off before he told him that he came out.
“”[He] Said “grandmother, I’m going down.” He was not outside so long and I heard shots, “recalls the grandmother.” I asked my daughter, “Is he in her room?” I called his phone and did not receive an answer.
After hearing someone calling her name from the outside, she rushed below to find Ingram rare on the ground.
“He did not speak. I know he was aware. When I called him, slapping his face, his eyes rolled,” she said. “And then someone, a young woman, gave me her shirt to put pressure on her chest.”
Doctors precipitated Ingum to NYC Health + Hospitals / Kings County, but he could not be saved.
“My reaction to what happened is a numbness. He was killed at my door,” said Cynthia Ingram. “What type of reaction am I supposed to have?” His blood is at my door. I am numb. “
Akinola was arrested and charged the day after murder and criminal possession of a weapon. A judge of the Brooklyn Criminal Court held him without surety.
It was not immediately clear what was the killer’s reason or if he knew Ingram, but the two lived less than ten minutes on foot from each other, said the cops.
Ingram leaves behind her father, grandmother and a younger brother. His mother died of a falciform anemia crisis when he was only 15 months old and Manson raised him as a single father.
“I spoke to my son every day, three or four times a day. I am one of these dads. I was in my work. I went there all his life,” said Manson. “I am a full -time father, not part -time.”
Manson said that Ramel had excelled in football and basketball in growing, and had recently spent his summer to have time to train the basketball team of his younger brother during their dead.
“He is known from top to I-95. He played high-level AAU basketball, which was a travel program. He is very well known in the state and city in New York,” said Manson.
In adulthood, Ingram has found his call to manage several of his budding friends and hoped to make a career in management artists one day.
“He had skills. It was his passion. I really instilled my two boys with entrepreneurship,” said Manson. “He didn’t work for anyone. He didn’t understand how to start his own business.”
Ingram’s grandmother, who called the victim her “pride and joy” described him as well manipulated and respectful.
“He had a lot of structure and well-being with him. Ramel was very respectable. “Yes Madame”, “Yes sir”. If you asked him to do something, he didn’t chat with you. “He was a clown, and he was very funny. [He] liked to joke.
