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A Few Clouds Suspect arrested in Channel Park killing
Victim’s family calls for justice; suspect pleads not guilty
A Long Beach man was arrested last week and charged with the murder of 28-year-old Tyrenzo Brown at the Channel Park Homes on Sept. 27, just months after the suspect finished a four-year jail stint for the armed robbery and beating of a local Chinese food deliveryman.
Long Beach police arrested 22-year-old Antonio Webb, of East Pine Street, on Oct. 1 and charged him with second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
Neither Nassau County Police Department homicide detectives nor Long Beach police would comment on a motive or disclose the circumstances surrounding the shooting, though Long Beach Police Commissioner Mike Tangney told the Herald that Brown was with a group outside 5 Birch Court just before 1 a.m. two Saturdays ago when someone opened fire, in what Tangney described as a “sudden attack.”
Brown, who had visited his daughter at the apartment complex earlier, was shot multiple times. He was taken to South Nassau Communities Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
According to residents and the Long Beach Housing Authority, which operates Channel Park — just a block away from Long Beach police headquarters — there have been a number of gun- and gang-related incidents at the housing development. Tangney said, however, that investigators do not believe the shooting was gang-related. He also said he was confident the case would be “resolved.”
The latest shooting came after Channel Park residents held a number of rallies and vigils calling for an end to the gun violence at the apartment complex. There have also been a number of community meetings with police and city officials to address safety concerns, including one held last week, after Brown’s death.
Two days after the killing, local clergy, community leaders and residents gathered to decry the violence and the “apathy” among residents, and to call for additional security measures at the Channel Park Homes. Joined by Tangney and an investigator from the Nassau County district attorney’s office, Charles Ribando, the crowd rallied in front of the Housing Authority headquarters, at 500 Centre St., shouting, “Enough is enough!”
