Bed-Stuy Resident Reportedly Shot Dead By Homeless Man Who Wanted His Wallet

The homeless shelter where the alleged shooter was staying. Photo via Google Maps.

An arrest has been made in the Aug. 8 murder of 32-year-old Bed-Stuy resident Christopher Tennison, police announced on Wednesday night.

Keith Brannon, 48, who lives at the CAMBA Atlantic House Men’s Shelter, located on the same block as Tennison’s apartment building, has been arrested and charged with his murder.

An NYPD source told Patch that Brannon, a homeless man, grabbed Tennison’s wallet on the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Eastern Parkway, near the homeless shelter on the Bed-Stuy/Brownsville border — then “shot him in the face.”

A woman named Kimberly Del Pezzo said she was Tennison’s wife in an email to Patch.

She called Tennison ”an amazing person,” and said his murder had been ”awful.”

“I’m devastated,” Del Pezzo wrote.

Patch has reached out to Del Pezzo for more details about the shooting and the victim. His home address was listed by the NYPD as 2352 Atlantic Avenue, near Brownsville — and just steps from the spot where he was killed.

NYPD officers were conducting a car stop around 8:45 p.m. near East New York Avenue and Junius Street, the department said in a statement, when they “were alerted by a female passerby that there were two men, one armed with a handgun, who were arguing at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Sackman Street.”

But when the officers rushed to the scene of the reported argument, they say 32-year-old Tennison was already dead — and his attacker nowhere in sight.

Tennison was laying on the concrete “unconscious and unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head,” says the NYPD. Emergency medical responders pronounced him dead on arrival.

News 12 Brooklyn reported at the time that a witness, who declined to speak on camera, “occasionally saw Tennison around the neighborhood with his girlfriend.” He told the news channel that ”the last time he saw the 32-year-old, there was blood coming out of his mouth on the sidewalk.”