Adams Skips Funeral Service Of Slain Brooklyn 12-Year-Old: Report

BROOKLYN, NY — A crowded Brooklyn church was without one significant mourner on Wednesday as family laid to rest 12-year-old Kade Lewin, who was tragically shot while sitting in a car last month, according to reports.

Mayor Eric Adams — who held a press conference with family in the days after the East Flatbush shooting — ditched the funeral service 10 minutes before the ceremony at New Life Tabernacle Church, according to the New York Post and the mayor's schedule.

Adams told the outlet he was on his way to the church when he realized he wouldn't make a meeting with a civil rights leaders about gun violence.

Instead, the mayor wired $500 he had planned to give Kade's mom to help with burial costs and headed to his meeting, he told the Post.

"We thought we could do both. I didn’t want to illegally use lights and sirens and break the law,” he said. “I’m going to reach out to the mother later and I’m sure she’s traumatized by this whole incident.”

The service was removed from Adams' public schedule around 9:19 a.m., according to emails sent by his office.

The service for Kade comes several weeks after bullets descended on the car where he and two relatives had pulled over to eat near Linden Boulevard.

Kade, in the passenger seat, was hit multiple times and pronounced dead at the scene. His cousin, 20-year-old Jenna Ellis, was hospitalized, but survived multiple gunshots, according to officials and reports.

A third relative in the backseat, an 8-year-old girl, was left physically unharmed, but is severely traumatized by the incident, officials said.

The shooting was the latest to send shockwaves through New York City as officials work to quell a pandemic-driven spike in gun violence that has not spared even the youngest New Yorkers.

Family, educators and other mourners remembered Kade Wednesday as a "bright light of life" that was "snatched tragically" from their lives, the Post reports. There have so far been no arrests in the shooting.

Read the full New York Post story on the funeral service here.