Kevin Hernandez, 19, was fatally shot around 5:45 p.m. on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, in Ridgewood, Queens. Officers found Hernandez with a gunshot wound to his torso in front of 1726 George Street; he was taken to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center and pronounced dead. He had been about a five-minute walk from his home on Bleecker Street.

Investigators say Hernandez was riding a moped on George Street when a group of roughly nine teenagers walking on Seneca Avenue turned onto the street. Hernandez made a U-turn and stopped in front of 1728 George Street, across from Joseph F. Quinn Intermediate School 77. A 16-year-old male from Brooklyn is accused of stepping into the street, producing a firearm, firing at Hernandez, and then fleeing with the others. Two 9 mm shell casings were recovered at the scene.

A 16-year-old from Flushing Avenue in Brooklyn was arrested, indicted by a Queens grand jury on murder in the second degree, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, and tampering with physical evidence, and arraigned in Queens Supreme Court; he was remanded without bail. The same suspect was also indicted in an alleged robbery and assault at the Myrtle Avenue subway station the previous night. Did anyone in Ridgewood see the group on Seneca Avenue or have information about the moped’s movements that evening?