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Convicted Of Murder at 14
My brother, John Bunn, is 14 years old and has been arrested for murder, a crime he did not commit. However, there is still hope. If my family can raise 100,000 dollars it will enough to pay the bail. Please make a difference and donate to John. He needs all the help he can get. This is what happened on the night of the killing. The day before John was arrested, two off-duty Rikers Island correction officers and old friends, Rolando Neischer and Robert Crosson, were sitting in a car, chatting outside the Kingsborough projects, a housing project in Crown Heights. It was about 4 a.m.
Suddenly, two men on bicycles approached the car, pointed guns and ordered the pair out of their vehicle. Crosson later described at trial how a gun then "went off," the bullet ripping through his hand. He managed to get out of the car and sprinted away, losing track of his friend.
At some point, Neischer had grabbed his own firearm and fought back.
In the ensuing gunfight, before the attackers jumped in the car and drove away, Neischer was shot five times. He was found slumped against a fence, bleeding, but still alive, 192 feet from where the car had been parked.
The next day, they came for John Bunn, with Crosson identifying both him and Hargrave in police lineups. Three days after that, Neischer died from his wounds.
On the night Neischer and Crosson were carjacked, John had no inkling of what was to come. But his mother heard a portent.
At about 4:30 a.m., Maureen Bunn (Mum) awoke from a deep sleep to the sound of gunshots. They sounded like they were coming from the backyard of her housing complex, near Kingsborough.
"I thought, oh my god, I hope everybody's ok," . Instinctively, she padded to her children's room, peering into the dark to check on them. Minutes after the bullets that killed Neischer tracked their fatal course through the soupy August air that night, Maureen noted with relief that her kids were safe.
John lay sound asleep in his bunk. The very next day he was arrested for murder. We do not want him to become yet another victim of the system, so please make a donation the free John.
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