On the afternoon of April 6, 2023, 18-year-old Tamani Turner was shot twice in the torso a short distance from his family’s home near Garden Avenue and East 4th Street in Mount Vernon, New York. He was taken by private vehicle to Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital, then transferred to Jacobi Medical Center, where he died of his injuries. Turner was the third teenager killed by homicide in Mount Vernon that year.

The Mount Vernon Police Department, assisted by the FBI Westchester Safe Streets Task Force and the Westchester County Police Real Time Crime Center, identified 33-year-old Akeem Grant of Mount Vernon as a suspect. U.S. Customs and Border Protection notified authorities on April 7, 2023 that Grant was at Philadelphia International Airport attempting to board a flight to Jamaica; he was detained and arrested by the FBI’s Philadelphia Field Office and the Philadelphia Police Department and later extradited to Mount Vernon. On April 25, 2023 Grant was arraigned on charges including Murder in the Second Degree and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree and remanded to the Westchester County Department of Corrections. During Turner’s funeral, police also arrested two other men, one for carrying a loaded handgun and another for attempting to interfere with that arrest.

Are there details about Tamani’s last day or his movements that anyone in the neighborhood can share?