Two suspects being questioned in Queens shooting that left high school senior dead, NYPD says

Detectives on Friday were questioning two suspects in the murder of an 18-year-old Queens high school senior fatally shot in front of his school as his family and friends wrestled with their incalculable loss.

Victim Mark Greene was waiting for the Q20 bus at the intersection of 77th Road and Main St. in Kew Gardens Hills Thursday when he was fatally shot around 3:15 p.m., police said.

Greene’s half-brother, Theo Jones, received the tragic news as he was changing after basketball practice at Benjamin N. Cardozo High School, five miles away from where the shooting took place.

“I had to get the kids out of the locker room because the school closes at 7 p.m., but eight or nine of the kids come out of the locker room looking upset. That’s when I knew something was up,” longtime Cardozo High School basketball Coach Ron Naclerio told the Daily News..

“‘You don’t want to go in there, coach,’” one student told Naclerio. “‘Theo just learned that his brother got shot.’”

“I went in and I saw him still dressed in his gym attire, bawling,” Naclerio said. “A few seconds later, he told me that his brother got shot and killed.”

Naclerio comforted the junior, who had just started playing with the varsity team, and put him in an Uber so he could get home.

“We spoke every half hour or hour through the night,” Naclerio said. “I wanted to make sure he was all right.”

Naclerio said he never met Greene, but knew all about the harrowing ripple effects a single gunshot can have.

Over the last few years a handful of Cardozo students or relatives of Cardozo students had fallen victim to gun violence he said.

“I’m getting tired of it,” he said.

Greene was a block away from his school, North Queens Community High School, when he was shot, witnesses said.

The dismissal bell had rang and students were filing out the door when the sound of gunfire sent everyone scrambling back inside.

Greene was shot multiple times and found face down on the pavement. EMS rushed him to Jamaica Hospital, but he couldn’t be saved.

“He fell right in front of the bus stop,” classmate Rocio Hernandez, 17, told The News. “We were waiting for the bus when the shots started.”

Responding officers took two people into custody at the scene. Charges were pending. Cops also recovered a firearm.

His relatives were too grief-stricken to talk to a reporter when reached Friday.

A motive for the slaying was not immediately disclosed.

Greene had no criminal record, but a source said he was affiliated with a gang he was trying to break free from.