Friends remember murder victim as ‘a true friend’

The man killed on Wednesday afternoon near Wilson Track and Palm Beach Avenue, left many friends in disbelief, recalling their last conversation with the victim.

Though police have not officially identified him, friends affectionately called him ‘C.J’ and ‘Gucci’.

One friend who did not want to be identified said she had just spoken to him on Tuesday before his tragic demise.

Police said ‘CJ’ became the country’s 91st murder victim for the year when two men approached him as he sat in an open vicinity of a residence around 4:45 pm. He was shot multiple times in the upper body.

A video circulated shows the victim lying face up with multiple gunshot wounds to his body, as a man sitting next to his body, quietly weeps. A crowd looks on awaiting the arrival of police officers.

“You and me just talk[ed] and you asked me how [I] and the boys were doing,” Takida Smith, a friend of the victim lamented.

She described him as “a true friend” with a “heart of gold.”

“You were like a brother to me,” she wrote to social media.

Police said though he was not monitored with an electronic monitoring device, the victim was known to them for nonviolent offenses.

Another friend, Tiffanell Brown like many of his friends, is still reeling from shock since learning of the death and was struggling to come to terms with his violent passing.

“You just told me you want[ed ]to leave Nassau and [asked] what you needed to do. I said, ‘Deal with that police record.’ Now you gone…Now I have to just cherish the memories I have with you.”