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A young woman arrested for the slaying of a Brooklyn teen inside an Infiniti four months ago laid the blame on her still-at-large boyfriend — and claimed she was in the middle of a marijuana deal when the deadly shot was fired, the Daily News has learned.
Amari Harvey, 21, told police she was in the passenger seat of Sharif Richards’ car when the 18-year-old Brooklyn man was killed Sept. 29, 2021, but that she didn’t pull the trigger.
“The defendant heard a gunshot go off inside the vehicle,” court papers state. Mortally wounded, Richards drove off, with Harvey inside until he crashed down the block and got out of his car.
“He stumbled from his vehicle stating, in sum and substance, that he had been shot and collapsed on the ground,” prosecutors said.
Richards was sitting in the driver’s seat of the luxury car near Foster Ave. and E. 80th St. in Canarsie when he was shot. Medics rushed him to Brookdale University Hospital, but he could not be saved.
The 2020 Erasmus High School graduate had been expected to begin an electrical engineering program in the fall, heartbroken family members said.
“It’s very, very tough for the family,” Sharif’s mother, Delise Richards, 58, told the Daily News. “I keep thinking he’s coming back, he’s going to walk through the door.”
Harvey was arrested for Richards’ murder Wednesday just as she was about to board a plane to Trindad, cops said. Cops charged her with murder, attempted robbery and criminal possession of a weapon.
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She was ordered held without bail after a brief arraignment proceeding in Brooklyn Criminal Court on Thursday. It was her first arrest in the city, police said.
When questioned, Harvey said she and her boyfriend had met up with Richards to buy some marijuana, but her boyfriend asked her to make the deal while he waited in his car.
Surveillance footage recovered at the scene backs up some of Harvey’s claims: She was recorded getting out of her boyfriend’s car and getting into Richards’ Infiniti.
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A few moments later, the boyfriend got out of his car and “leaned into the rear passenger side of Sharif Richards’ vehicle.”
“After the [boyfriend] leaned into Sharif Richards’ vehicle, a gunshot sounded and Sharif Richards’ vehicle sped away from the location,” according to court papers.
Harvey’s boyfriend was not identified. No arrests have been made.
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Amari Harvey, 21, told police she was in the passenger seat of Sharif Richards’ car when the 18-year-old Brooklyn man was killed Sept. 29, 2021, but that she didn’t pull the trigger.
“The defendant heard a gunshot go off inside the vehicle,” court papers state. Mortally wounded, Richards drove off, with Harvey inside until he crashed down the block and got out of his car.
“He stumbled from his vehicle stating, in sum and substance, that he had been shot and collapsed on the ground,” prosecutors said.
Richards was sitting in the driver’s seat of the luxury car near Foster Ave. and E. 80th St. in Canarsie when he was shot. Medics rushed him to Brookdale University Hospital, but he could not be saved.
The 2020 Erasmus High School graduate had been expected to begin an electrical engineering program in the fall, heartbroken family members said.
“It’s very, very tough for the family,” Sharif’s mother, Delise Richards, 58, told the Daily News. “I keep thinking he’s coming back, he’s going to walk through the door.”
Harvey was arrested for Richards’ murder Wednesday just as she was about to board a plane to Trindad, cops said. Cops charged her with murder, attempted robbery and criminal possession of a weapon.
[More New York] Teen working to get off overnights at NYC Burger King shot to death by crook in caught-on-video hold up
She was ordered held without bail after a brief arraignment proceeding in Brooklyn Criminal Court on Thursday. It was her first arrest in the city, police said.
When questioned, Harvey said she and her boyfriend had met up with Richards to buy some marijuana, but her boyfriend asked her to make the deal while he waited in his car.
Surveillance footage recovered at the scene backs up some of Harvey’s claims: She was recorded getting out of her boyfriend’s car and getting into Richards’ Infiniti.
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A few moments later, the boyfriend got out of his car and “leaned into the rear passenger side of Sharif Richards’ vehicle.”
“After the [boyfriend] leaned into Sharif Richards’ vehicle, a gunshot sounded and Sharif Richards’ vehicle sped away from the location,” according to court papers.
Harvey’s boyfriend was not identified. No arrests have been made.
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