A suspected gang member was arrested Monday in the murder of the 13-year-old boy who was gunned down on a Brooklyn street on his way home from a Nets game five months ago – though the shooter is still on the lam, authorities and law enforcement sources said.
Sheik Koureichi, 20, was hit with charges of second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in the slaying of teen Troy Gill, according to an indictment from Brooklyn prosecutors.
Koureichi, of Brooklyn, was allegedly in the car when a gunman fired a barrage of bullets at Gill, fatally striking him before he collapsed on the sidewalk on February 29, sources told The Post.
Gill was on his way home from a Brooklyn Nets game at the Barclays Center before he was hit in the chest and upper body in Crown Heights around 10:40 p.m.
Sources previously said he might have been targeted in a rival gang hit.
Koureichi is also facing a first-degree reckless endangerment charge tied to other gunfire the same day Gill was killed, authorities said.
In that separate incident, shots were fired around 11 p.m. in front of 586 Snediker Avenue, but no one was hit, cops said.
Koureichi is part of a gang, but it’s unclear which one, sources said.
He has five prior arrests, including for criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, criminal possession of a weapon and grand larceny, cops said.
His latest arrest before Monday’s new charges was June 28 when he allegedly crashed into someone’s property in Queens.
Koureichi was arraigned in court Monday and remanded.
