Cops think teen named killer with her dying breath.
By Shawn Cohen, Reuven Fenton, Frank Rosario and Natalie Musumeci June 1, 2016 | 4:48pm
Cops think teen named killer with her dying breath
Shemel Mercurius Photo: Facebook
The 16-year-old girl who was gunned down inside her Brooklyn home made a dying declaration, blurting out a man’s name to cops in her last breath, police sources said Wednesday.
Shemel Mercurius — who was shot multiple times in her sixth-floor apartment on Brooklyn Avenue in East Flatbush on Tuesday — uttered the name as she lay dying, sources said.
Police were hunting a 24-year-old man, who cops believe can be seen in surveillance video entering and fleeing Mercurius’ apartment with an apparent assault rifle, according to sources.
Mercurius, a junior at Edward R. Murrow High School and a native of Guyana, was babysitting her 3-year-old cousin when she was blasted by bullets, hitting her in each bicep, around 6 p.m., sources said.
Building surveillance video shows a man — presumed to be the man Mercurius referred to — and a woman in the elevator together. The man exits the elevator on the fifth floor and the woman continues up to the sixth floor.
Mercurius can be seen in the surveillance video standing in her doorway looking toward the elevator and she suddenly shuts the door as the man tries to get in.
The apartment building where Shemel Mercurius was shot.Photo: Wayne Carrington
Video also shows Mercurius open the door to the apartment again and the man runs in with what appears to be an assault rifle, followed by the woman.
Mercurius then can be seen in the frame falling down inside the apartment and the man and woman flee the scene, sources said.
“They’re looking for him. Her boyfriend. Nobody knew that she had this boyfriend. I always told her, ‘Shemel, you’re a beautiful girl, don’t worry about boys. Focus on your education,’” the teen’s grandmother Joan, 70, told The Post.
“She died before she got to the hospital. But before she died, she gave the cops her boyfriend’s name,” said Joan. “She told them he shot her.”
The teen had previously told her, “I don’t want no boyfriend. I don’t have any boyfriend,” the grandmother said.
Cops found the teen’s 3-year-old cousin Josiah inside the apartment unharmed. Mercurius was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital.
The teen’s devastated father, who emigrated with her from Guyana in 2012, was stunned by her brutal death.
Shemel’s father, DexterPhoto: Frank Rosario
“My daughter came here four years ago to live a better life. For better opportunities,” said Dexter Mercurius, 38. “Everyone loved her. She was smart and never got into any trouble.”
“Before she passed, she called out a boy’s name,” he said. “I don’t know if it was the boyfriend or not. I just have questions right now and no answers.”
Dexter said his distraught family “will not rest” until his daughter’s killer is caught.
“We are all traumatized,” said Mercurius’ aunt Latoya Pryce, 31, the mother of the boy her niece was babysitting at the time of her death.
“What could she have done to have a target put on her like this, to come to her home and take her life in front of her 3-year-old cousin?” she said.
Family members said the teen’s mom is flying in from Guyana.
The shooting came hours after city politicians and anti-gun advocates kicked off Gun Violence Awareness Month.
“It’s sad and disheartening that I am issuing a statement on yet another fatal shooting, and worse that another family is in unimaginable pain and distress. Much more, we lost a 16-year-old child who was at the beginning of her life,” Councilman Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn), who attended the event, said in a statement.
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No Justice, No Peace (7.8.16): Some powerful shit just went down in Atlanta. Thousands came out to protest the lives stolen by police and vigilante violence, both locally and across the country. They shut down parts of both I-85 and I-75, A BIG FUCKING DEAL if you know the city (these are all 6+ lane interstates). So proud of all of my Atlanta fam tonight! Y’all have been working towards this for months, and I know you’re just getting started. #farfromover
Cops in San Francisco are in trouble cause their text messages were full of racist shit. This revelation comes on the heels of the federal prosecution and conviction of Sgt. Furminger on corruption charges. Officers Ian Furminger, Michael Robison Noel Schwab, Rain Daugherty and Michael Celis were caught texting outrageous messages between each other.
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“We got two blacks at my boys [sic] school and they are brother and sister! There cause dad works for the school district and I am watching them like hawks.” • In response to a text asking “Do you celebrate quanza [sic] at your school?” Furminger wrote: “Yeah we burn the cross on the field! Then we celebrate Whitemas.” “Its [sic] worth every penny to live here [Walnut Creek] away from the savages.” • “Those guys are pretty stupid! Ask some dumb ass questions you would expect from a black rookie! Sorry if they are your buddies!” • “The buffalo soldier was why the Indians Wouldnt [sic] shoot the n****rs that found for the confederate They [sic] thought they were sacred buffalo and not human.” “Gunther Furminger was a famous slave auctioneer.” • “My wife has 2 friends over that don’t know each other the cool one says to me get me a drink n****r not knowing the other is married to one just happened right now LMFAO.” • “White power.” • In response to a text saying “n****rs should be spayed,” Furminger wrote “I saw one an hour ago with 4 kids.” • “I am leaving it like it is, painting KKK on the sides and calling it a day!” • “Cross burning lowers blood pressure! I did the test myself!” • In response to a text saying “All n****rs must fucking hang,” Furminger wrote “Ask my 6 year old what he thinks about Obama.” • In response to a text saying “Just boarded train at Mission/16th,” Furminger wrote “Ok, just watch out for BM’s” [black males]. • “I hate to tell you this but my wife friend [sic] is over with their kids and her husband is black! If [sic] is an Attorney but should I be worried?” Furminger’s friend, an SFPD officer, responded: “Get ur pocket gun. Keep it available in case the monkey returns to his roots. Its [sic] not against the law to put an animal down.” Furminger responded, “Well said!” • In response to a text from another SFPD officer regarding the promotion of a black officer to sergeant, Furminger wrote: “Fuckin n****r.”
Stats shows that only 6% of San Francisco’s population are African American, however, they are seven times more likely than Caucasian residents to be arrested by the police.
Fucking bastards! The authorities didn’t fire them, they just moved them to different positions and that’s all! They just covered their asses AGAIN. How many more racists serve this country? How many more cops target people of color and support mass incarceration of Blacks? The system is a solid structure that cures itself by covering the truth from us.
Some racist hooligan assaulted a black couple who just came to Italy from Nigeria as war refugees. He killed the husband,
Emmanuel Chidi Namdi
, who was defending his wife,
Chimiary, after that man started calling her racial slurs out of nowhere. He is dead, the hooligan killed him WITH A ROAD SIGN. He hit him again and again, in front of his wife.
This happened in Fermo, Italy, twenty minutes away from where I live. This has shocked me so much. Racism is a serious problem in Italy, fascism and intolerance are escalating, horrible politicians like Salvini (the Italian equivalent of Donald Trump) are encouraging racism and are actively trying to block the refugees from entering out country.
Please don’t let this go unnoticed: tumblr is pretty US-centric, but people need to know the names of all the victims of hate, from all over the world. Emmanuel needs to be remembered and mourned. Please, don’t let racism win. I’m still shocked, this happened so close to my hometown. Don’t let them win. Fight this horrible hate.
“Yesterday the man behind Laughing at Liberals was arrested after pointing a gun artprotesters during an otherwise peaceful rally in the immediate aftermath of the deaths of Castile and Sterling. He is a violent transmisogynist and homophobe who has repeatedly harassed trans women of color on his website. He even went to Portland’s Orlando vigil to do this; only a day after the Pulse shooting.
With all the media attention on him vital context for this man’s violent, racist and homphobic behavior is being lost. Let’s not forget who he is and what he’s done. This website documents his racist and homophobic behavior. Please share this to all your networks so this man cannot enter any of our shared spaces with either a gun or a camera.
My friend Stormy is a hardworking single mother, she lives on the opposite side of the country away from family and does not have money or any type of support from the father but she always puts her son first. Without fail he is her priority. One day she has to run to the grocery store and leaves her son with an adult she trusted, an adult all of her friends including myself, trusted. Now her son is in the hospital with blunt force trauma to the head awaiting possible surgery. She can’t afford to pay for the medical expenses and she does not have insurance. Donations would really help her and baby August, please donate! If you cannot donate then please share, no mom deserves to have this happen to their child
please ask your followers to find and report these men
The first one clearly works at the Kansas city police department and literally threatened the life a black child that’s really fucking amazing. here’s his facebook page x I can’t get a good enough look at his badge to get the badge number but I’m assuming his first and last name should be enough
Their administrative number is
816-234-5000
The second one is gonna be a bit harder since they didn’t make the snap and their last name is blocked out for whatever reason.
to me it looks like he’s currently working for the Overland Park police department, which is a suburb of KC. Most departments around here have a rule that you have to live in the community you serve. I had to dig to find the complaint process but here’s the number I found:
Police Dispatch: (913) 895-6300 (Please request a Police Supervisor)
I just found out about Essence Bowman, she died this week after she got hit by a car during a police arrest.
The police didn’t even contact her family to tell her what happened to her….the family found out from the hospital.
She was also mentally ill and leaves behind 3 beautiful children
It’s such a disgrace that we haven’t heard much of her story…we need to seriously do right be the countless black women who are lost to violence and protect the ones that are living
please ask your followers to find and report these men
The first one clearly works at the Kansas city police department and literally threatened the life a black child that’s really fucking amazing. here’s his facebook page x I can’t get a good enough look at his badge to get the badge number but I’m assuming his first and last name should be enough
Their administrative number is
816-234-5000
The second one is gonna be a bit harder since they didn’t make the snap and their last name is blocked out for whatever reason.
