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Two Charged In Fatal Bronx Shootout

07/25/2012 02:30:00 By Peter Milosheff, viewed 1,736 times.
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Two men have been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a 4-year-old boy during a basketball tournament in Bronx.

Police on Wednesday charged 17-year-old Rondell Pinkerton of the Bronx with murder and criminal possession of a weapon. They say he admitted to firing a gun during the tournament on Sunday. He told authorities he fired in self-defense.

The boy, Lloyd Morgan, died that evening.

Twenty-six-year-old Courtney Kelly of Bronx, who was wounded in the shootout, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon.

Police say about 13 rounds were fired from either side of the court and adjacent playground, where Lloyd was standing with his mother. She was not injured.

A 21-year-old man also was wounded in the shootout.

Information about the suspects' lawyers was not immediately available.

 

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Thomas Lockhart

was born June 8, 1953. Mr. Lockhart is a former Bronx resident from the Marble Hill section, and attended The Bronx High School of Science and Manhattan College. A former All-American basketball player at both institutions, he left for Europe in 1976 to pursue a professional career after a brief encounter with the Milwaukee Bucks of the NBA. Continuing his education he actively plunged into corporate marketing communications with international companies like Philips, Alstom, Qiagen Instruments, KPMG, European Space Administration, ABN-Amro Bank and the Port of Rotterdam, while continuing to play ball and coach. Teaching English and advertising in Holland led to the setup of Ideas Unlimited, his own International Business Communications firm. Mr. Lockhart has lived and worked in various countries for the past 33 years, speaks German, French, Dutch and is currently learning Italian. Now residing near Zurich Switzerland, he has three children, Jarrett, 31 Chief of Staff with the Bronx City Council, 14th District, Maraya, 21 and Malik, 11. Tom is currently serving as Communications Manager and Asst. Operations Coordinator of the Marble Hill Reunion and Development Project.