18-year-old arrested in fatal Queens subway shooting

An 18-year-old man has been arrested for the fatal shooting of a Queens teenager on the A train in Far Rockaway, the NYPD said.

Keyondre Russell was nabbed Saturday in the killing of 15-year-old Jayjon Burnett, police said.

Burnett was shot in the chest after an argument broke out on the train between two groups of young people, authorities said.

“The cops called me. I feel like justice is served,” said Burnett’s mother, Christine Alvarez. 

Facing the loss of her son, a distraught Alvarez added, “I am not doing great.”

Dad Jeff Burnett said of Russell, “He is lucky they got him before we got him. That’s my child. He did not value my child’s life.”

A neighbor of the slain teen was glad to hear of the arrest.

“Thank God they caught him,” said Haywood Whylie, 80. “…The system is so bad, they go to jail tonight, they are 15,16, 17, 18, they put them back out on the streets and that’s wrong. … He does not belong in society.  

“There is no concern about one another, no feelings at all,” the elder man lamented.

A good Samaritan pulled Burnett off the train after it arrived at the Far Rockaway-Mott Ave. station. The mortally wounded teen was pronounced dead at Cohen’s Children’s Medical Center.

Burnett’s was the ninth subway killing so far this year, among them the May slaying of Goldman Sachs employee Daniel Enriquez, who was shot and killed in a random attack on the Q train, and the fatal stabbings of Tommy Bailey, 43, and Charles Moore, 38.