Brooklyn shooting victim’s wanted killer will find ‘no peace,’ grieving mom hopes

The mother of a Brooklyn man shot two blocks away from their home hopes his on-the-loose killer will be forever haunted by the murderous act.

Kendell Friday was shot in the head on St. John’s Place near Schenectady Ave. in Crown Heights just before 5 a.m. Wednesday.

“Whoever did this they will have no peace,” said Charlene Friday, the mother of the 25-year-old shooting victim. “Everyone needs peace in their life. But I don’t know how you have that and sleep knowing what you did.”

Medics took Kendell to Kings County Hospital but he couldn’t be saved.

“Nothing like that should be on your conscience,” Charlene said. “Life hands you a lot of bad things. This is what life does. It haunts you. It hurts you and you have to do something about it or you’ll get sick.”

Charlene Friday last saw her son hours before the shooting when she asked him to turn down his music.

“I told him, ‘Kendell, it’s too loud. I have to get up at 4 (a.m.) to get to work,'” she recalled. “He said, ‘Alright, mom.’ And he soon left the house.”

“I didn’t have any concerns because I knew he would be in the area and he usually comes in late,” she added. “I don’t know his friends’ names but he would have people around so I’m confused who would do this.”

Brooklyn’s 77th Precinct has seen 10 murders through Oct. 20, compared to six in the same timeframe last year — and two of this year’s slayings happened within a block of where Friday was killed.

On Sept 1, 37-year-old ex-con Donnell Thomas was shot in the chest just outside his apartment building on the same block where Kendell was slain.

And on Jan 24, Barrington Howell, also 37, was fatally stabbed in the neck a block away on Schenectady Ave. and Sterling Place. Jamel Miles 39, was later arrested for murder, robbery and weapons possession.

Kendell’s mother learned he had died after a doctor from Kings County Hospital called her eldest son.

“The doctor called him and told him he had a gunshot wound to his head,” she said. “They said he was dead on the spot.”

“I just can’t believe it and still up to now I can’t deal with it,” she added. “I just had to get away and stay with family for a while.”

Kendell worked as a security guard until about three months ago and was trying to find a job, his mother said.

“He was always a supportive outgoing person,” she said “Always helpful and willing to give a lending hand especially to his friends.”

“He would always tell me he got my back and I would say, I’m a working woman, he doesn’t have to have my back,” she added. “He was just trying to say he is here for me.”