Mother of ‘leader’ teenager killed in New York breaks silence: ‘I want justice for him’

The heartbroken mother of the slain Brooklyn teen, whom the director mourned as a “joyful leader,” described in tragic detail to The Post on Sunday how her son was stabbed to death in front of his twin brother.

And now she wants the “little punks” who did it to pay.

“I want justice for him,” Simone Brooks said of her slain son, 17-year-old high school student Naiheem Wright, whose distraught twin Raheem stayed by his side as Naiheem bled to death on a Coney Island sidewalk after school last week. .

“They all want to pull their guns these days,” Brooks, 50, said of the heinous attacks on her sons. “They don’t want to fight because they’re just little punks.

“We want justice for my son Nayhim because he didn’t deserve it and we’re not okay.”

Police believe Naheem was attacked by a group of about six teenagers over a fight over a girl earlier in the day, law enforcement sources told The Post on Sunday. According to sources, the victim was not a member of any gang.

He and Raheem were attacked by assailants around 3:20 p.m. Friday in the Rite Aid parking lot at Mermaid Avenue and West 30th Street, police said.

Nyheem was pronounced dead at Maimonides Medical Center on Saturday, after which City Schools Chancellor David Banks tweeted: “Tonight I spoke to the headmaster of a young man who described him as a joyful leader.

“He was about to graduate and was a hardworking worker who was actively involved in guiding other young people at his school,” Banks wrote of the victim.

According to the tragic teen’s mother, the headmaster of Naihim’s school, K728 Liberation Diploma Plus High School, even spent Friday night at the hospital with his family.

The police made no arrests in connection with the death.

“They fought boys and he said there were six of them,” Brooks said, recalling what her son Rahim told her about the fateful day. “One of them pulled out a knife.”

She said that Raheem “stayed with his twin brother all the time.

“I talked to him on the phone … and when the ambulance came, they kept saying: “He is losing a lot of blood, he is losing a lot of blood!” ”

Brooks said Nyheem’s wound tore a large artery.

“No one could do anything because the blood just flowed out,” she said. “Platelets, plasma – they just don’t clot. And after a while they checked his blood pressure, and it got so low, and they said, “No one can live like this and their heart will stop.”

“They told me, ‘Call your family,'” she said. “You can get them all here.” “

She said that Naihim was a beloved and popular teenager.

“He wasn’t in a gang,” she said of her late child. “He was a very good student. Everyone at school loved him. … They love him. He was getting ready for graduation. … He did an internship and gets paid every two weeks.”

She said that he planned to go to college after graduation.

The mother of nine boys, including two sets of twins, said: “Raheem, he is trying to be strong for me.

“But I look at his Snapchat posts and he’s like, ‘I’m not fine,'” she said. “He’s like, ‘I’ll never be okay.’ “