Police said they took someone into custody after a man was shot and killed outside his Brooklyn building Wednesday night.
NYPD officials said 24-year-old Ramel Ingram was gunned down around 8:45 p.m. on Crooke Avenue near St. Pauls Place, a little over a block from Prospect Park’s southeastern edge.
First responders found him with a gunshot wound to his chest and took him to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police said Thursday evening they arrested and charged 21-year-old Kindle Akinola with murder and weapons possession in connection with the incident, but were still investigating a motive. Attorney information for Akinola, who police say lives a few blocks from the shooting site, was not immediately available.
Ramel Ingram was shot to death in Brooklyn on Sept. 17, 2025.
At the building Thursday morning, Ingram’s grandmother said he had been living with her for two months and was helping her straighten up her apartment in the hours before the shooting, so that she could get around more easily after a knee-replacement surgery.
“He said, ‘Grandma I’m going to sit outside for a little while,’” Cynthia Ingram, 69, recalled. She said she heard gunshots not long afterward and rushed downstairs to find her grandson wounded.
“It don’t make no sense,” Ingram said, adding that she lost her own son, also named Ramel Ingram, in a Crown Heights shooting in 1988 when he was 15 years old. Through tears, she said she would miss her grandson’s sense of humor and basketball prowess.
Bullet holes were visible on the front doors of the building on Sept. 18, 2025.
Armando Ramirez, the superintendent of the neighboring building on Crooke Avenue, said he saw the victim sitting outside the building with two other people around 8 p.m. He said the others disappeared and left Ingram by himself a few minutes before the shots.
“These things happen suddenly, so you really have to be careful when you go outside to the street,” Ramirez said, noting the building and surrounding street have attracted occasional violence over the years.
According to NYPD data, homicides are rare in the 70th Precinct, which includes Prospect Park South, Midwood and Ditmas Park. Through Sept. 14 in the precinct, one person was killed and there were six shootings, down slightly from their numbers at the same point last year.
This is a developing story based on preliminary information from police and has been updated with additional details.
To learn more about gun violence patterns in New York City, check out Gothamist’s map of shooting incidents over the past five years.
