Suspect in shooting of Jets DB Kris Boyd charged with attempted murder
Frederick Green of the Bronx, who authorities said had been arrested four previous times, was charged Tuesday with attempted murder, assault and possession of a weapon while shooting the New York Jets defensive lineman. Kris Boyd on Nov. 16 outside a Midtown restaurant.
Green, 20, was hiding in his girlfriend’s apartment in upstate New York and was identified through social media posts and a Crime Stoppers tip, police sources told the New York Daily News. U.S. marshals detained him on Monday in Amherst, N.Y., a suburb of Buffalo.
Boyd, 29, was shot in the abdomen as he left Asian fusion restaurant Sei Less with two teammates and another friend around 2 a.m. and was taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition. The bullet lodged near his right lung and lodged in his pulmonary artery, police said.
On November 19, he wrote on social media that he “started breathing on my own” but was hospitalized again two weeks ago due to health complications. But Boyd had recovered sufficiently and last week made a surprise appearance He was at the Jets’ practice facility and attended a special teams meeting.
The shooting occurred after a group of four to five men “chirped” at Boyd and his friends outside the restaurant, mocking their fashionable attire, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at a news conference last month.
The conflict was caused by Boyd’s Jets teammates. Irvin Charles And Jamien Sherwood and another friend left the restaurant minutes later after deciding not to eat there. As they were leaving, the same group began “verbally insulting them and questioning their attire once again,” said Kenny.
A scuffle broke out and then one of the fighters, allegedly Green, attacked Boyd, firing two shots from a gun. Investigators released security footage of the gunman and asked the public for help identifying him.
In an email to The Times on Nov. 17, an NYPD spokesman said: “The person wanted is described as a medium-skinned male. He was last seen wearing a black hat, black sweatshirt, black pants, multi-colored sneakers, and carrying a black book bag.”
Green had four previous arrests, police told the Daily News; One of them was reckless endangerment in 2024, and the other was robbery in 2018, which was sealed because he was a juvenile.
Boyd’s teammates were delighted to see him on the practice field on December 3.
“I had friends who didn’t survive gunshot wounds, so to be able to see him walking around with a smile on his face, [talk] “It’s always a blessing to be around him,” Jets forward Jermaine Johnson told ESPN.[Guns] “They’re not toys and they’re very deadly, so it’s a blessing he got away from there.”
Boyd is entering his first year with the Jets after playing the past two seasons with the Houston Texans and from 2019-2022 with the Minnesota Vikings, who drafted him in the seventh round out of Texas in 2019.
