NEW YORK – Security has been increased at several SoHo high schools Wednesday after a 16-year-old was shot dead nearby Tuesday.
Makhi Brown, a student at the Broome Street Academy Charter High School, was killed in a broad-daylight shooting Tuesday between Spring and Dominick Streets.
A swarm of school safety officers surrounded a block of high schools in SoHo Wednesday, providing extra security, bringing in metal detectors and implementing bag checks.
There hadn’t been a shooting in the neighborhood in more than 16 months.
Mahki Brown’s family, friends, neighbors in mourning
Brown commuted to the school from his home in East Flatbush. His heartbroken friends and neighbors said he commuted more than an hour each day to the school to better his future and pursue his dreams of playing basketball.
“That’s the one thing he loved, basketball,” one neighbor said. “He was trying to keep up his grades so he could stay on the teams.”