Brooklyn Man Gets 15 Years for Murder of 17-Year-Old Girl Who Refused His Advances
DEBARYLIFE – A guy from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, was given a 15-year prison term for shooting a 17-year-old girl at a party in 2022 after she turned down his advances for a personal relationship.
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez revealed on Tuesday, May 21, that Javone Duncan, 24, had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for killing 17-year-old Rae’Lynn Cameron with a single gunshot to the chest after she rejected his advances two years prior. The Brooklyn man was found guilty on March 25, 2024, of two charges of second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon and second-degree homicide.
The defendant, who was 22 years old at the time, allegedly approached the 17-year-old at a party on Elderts Lane in East New York at 10:55 p.m. on October 20, 2022, according to the D.A.’s evidence.
The adolescent was approached by the male, who made approaches, but she rejected him, reportedly saying, “suck my d**k.” The man was so furious at being rejected that he took out a loaded pistol, aimed it at the victim, squeezed the trigger, shot her in the chest, and ran away, leaving her to bleed to death.
The D.A. added that the Brooklyn guy had threatened another young woman at the party with the same pistol by turning its safety on and off, just before he shot the 17-year-old girl who turned down his advances.
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Others at the party, however, warned him not to point the loaded gun at people since it was dangerous. Following the 17-year-old’s demise, the man was apprehended on October 26, 2022, and subsequently received a 15-year prison sentence.
“This senseless shooting took the life of a young woman with a bright future,” Kings County District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said during the sentencing of the Brooklyn man. In addition to serving as a measure of justice for the victim’s bereaved family, today’s sentence holds the defendant responsible for his conduct.
Cameron’s mother, Cassandra Adams, pleaded for no mercy to be meted out to her daughter’s killer during an impassioned victim impact statement.
She claimed the killer had callously taken “a diamond, a gem, a powerful force” from Cameron’s family. “I have been broken beyond words since this senseless crime,” the mother continued. I will always be in anguish, and even a guilty verdict won’t make it better. I never imagined myself wealthy because having my kids made me wealthy in the first place.
Adams went on to describe how her daughter, who is a “beautiful, smart, intelligent, dancing diva,” will never be able to mature into “the phenomenal woman I raised her to be.” “Please consider all the consequences and the suffering that we as the victims and families of the victims have gone through and continue to go through just because this grown adult made a bad decision,” she added in her advice to the jury and judge.