'Who Is Next?': BK Family Of Slain 12-Year-Old Pleads For Justice

BROOKLYN, NY — Suzette Lewin has a simple message for New Yorkers who might know who shot her 12-year-old son in Brooklyn last week.

"Please, somebody say something," Lewin said through tears, clutching a photo of her son, Kade. "I’m asking for justice for Kade."

Lewin, who was too traumatized to speak at a vigil over the weekend, made her first public comments about the tragic shooting Monday outside her family's Flatlands home, just two miles from where her son and niece were shot after pulling 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 still hospitalized on Monday, officials said.

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 is 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.

Just in the last few weeks, a 3-year-old was shot in the shoulder as her father picked her up from daycare in Brownsville and an 11-month-old was shot in the Bronx. A 7-year-old was also hurt in a shooting in Coney Island earlier this year.

"We can replace the name of Kade with so many other names — promising young people snatched away from us for no other reason [than] too many guns on our streets," Mayor Eric Adams said Monday. "There's only one question we have to answer if we don't get this right: Who's child is next?"

The mayor — who has made reducing crime a focal point of his first few months in office — has pointed to the number of illegal guns on city streets, particularly in East Flatbush's 67th Precinct, in the wake of the shooting.

Controversial anti-crime teams revived under Adams' sweeping gun violence plan seized 20 guns in their first two weeks patrolling high-crime precincts, according to the NYPD.

Police had yet to catch the shooter behind Kade's death on Monday. So far, they have said only that they are searching for two dark-colored sedans that were seen fleeing the scene.

"We need your help. Kade’s mother needs your help. Jenna’s mother needs your help," NYPD Commissioner Keechant L. Sewell said Monday, urging New Yorkers with information to call 800-577-TIPS.

A funeral home is accepting donations online to help fund Kade's burial and Ellis' ongoing medical costs, officials said.

"My nephew is gone ... My daughter is laid up in the hospital blaming herself. Why should she be blaming herself?" Jenna's mother said Monday. "It could be anyone's family. Nobody knows who is going to be next."