The suspect arrested for shooting Jets cornerback Kris Boyd in Midtown was hiding out in his girlfriend’s apartment when he was nabbed in upstate New York, police sources said Tuesday.
Surveillance video and social media posts “led to other people” who helped cops identify 20-year-old Frederick Green as the suspect and zero in on his location in Amherst, a suburb of Buffalo, a police source said.
Green appeared to have altered his appearance during his time on the run. He had long locks down to his chin under a skull cap in surveillance images from the shooting scene released last month by NYPD cops, who asked the public’s help identifying him. But when he was captured Monday, his hair was closely shorn.
A Crime Stoppers tip also helped cops identify Greene, who was flopping with his girlfriend when a team of U.S. marshals took him into custody. Police sources initially described the apartment as a university dormitory, but it later became clear it is a private apartment not connected to any university.
Cops transported Green to Manhattan’s Midtown South Precinct stationhouse on Tuesday, where he was charged with attempted murder, assault and weapons possession. He said nothing as he was led in handcuffs by cops out of the stationhouse to appear in Manhattan Criminal Court.
“My client is a young person with no history of violence,” Green’s lawyer, Anthony Ricco argued late Tuesday. “He has a high school diploma. He is one of 8 children.”
Judge Kacie Lally ordered Green to be held without bail, and set his next court date for Friday.
Green is accused of shooting Boyd on Nov. 16 outside Sei Less, a popular W. 38th St. Asian fusion hot spot that caters to sports stars, celebrities and other wealthy clientele.
Green lives in the Bronx and has four prior arrests, including one last year for reckless endangerment and a 2018 robbery arrest as a juvenile delinquent that was sealed, law enforcement sources said.
Cops say he was part of a group outside the eatery who “chirped” Boyd and his companions about their stylish clothes, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at a press briefing last month.
Boyd, teammates Irvin Charles and Jamien Sherwood and a friend from Boyd’s native Texas pulled up to the restaurant in a Cadillac Escalade, Kenny said. As they entered the restaurant, a group of four to five men standing outside “begin to ‘chirp’ them about the clothing that they’re wearing, and are asking them, ‘What, do you think you’re better than us?’” Kenny said.
Boyd had intended to celebrate his friend’s birthday, but he and his entourage left about 10 minutes later after deciding they didn’t like the “vibe,” Kenny said.
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Police investigate after New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd was shot in the abdomen on W. 38th St. near Broadway in Midtown on Nov. 16. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
As they left, the same group, who had dined at Sei Less earlier that evening, again began to “verbally insult them, and once again, questioning their clothing,” Kenny said.
The taunts sparked an argument that quickly escalated into an all-out brawl, during which one of the fighters pulled a gun and fired off two rounds.
One of the shots hit Boyd, who was rushed to Bellevue Hospital with a bullet lodged near his right lung. He was released from the hospital after a few days, but returned over Thanksgiving after facing a setback in his recovery, he posted on social media.
Green was last seen running east on W. 38th St. carrying a black bookbag before turning on Broadway toward W. 36th St., cops said.
His mother was shocked to learn on Monday that her son was in custody for Boyd’s shooting.
“I don’t know what he was doing up in Amherst,“ she told a Daily News reporter Monday at her Bronx apartment. “This is the first thing I’m hearing about it. Nobody called me.”
The suspect is a high school graduate currently enrolled in college studying business, said the suspect’s mother, who declined to answer questions about her son’s previous arrests.
“My son do this? No,” she said. “He is an amazing child. He is an amazing son, brother and kid. This is shocking.“
