Trini teen faces life in prison for fatal shooting

Dube, according to the Queens District Attorney’s Office, is also looking at a sentence of 25 years to life in prison if convicted of shooting Harrichand Singh, 16, to death on Saturday night, outside 117-07 109 Avenue in South Ozone Park, Queens.

He claims he shot Singh because "he kept looking at me and talking." He added, "So I went home and got the gun (and) went back to the party.

"I saw Harry leave with his boy. He walked past me and said, ‘Later, p——.’ So I got mad and went after him. I just took out the gun and pulled the trigger and they fell to the ground and I ran."

According to District Attorney Richard Brown, Dube fired a .32 calibre handgun striking Singh, a Guyanese immigrant, once in the head and once in the wrist, killing him.

He also shot Shastra Sagar, 14, in the chest with the same handgun, seriously wounding him.

Dube, a tenth grade high school student, has been charged with murder in the second degree, attempted murder in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second and third degree, and assault in the second degree.

"According to the charges, the defendant, intentionally and with depraved indifference to human life, caused the death of a 16-year-old male and intentionally shot and seriously injured a 14-year-old male using an illegal handgun outside a South Ozone Park residence," said DA Brown.

"The crime is a shocking example of mindless gun-related violence that takes innocent lives and recklessly endangers public safety."

Dube was arraigned before Queens Criminal Court Judge Deborah Stevens Modica and remanded to prison without bail. He is set to return on August 22.