Terrified teen testifies at friend’s murder trial
The best friend of a 16-year-old girl who was gunned down inside her East Flatbush apartment while babysitting her baby cousin, confronted trial questioning with silence and was reluctant to point out the alleged killer in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Monday.
Eighteen-year-old Louna Junien went to her friend Shemel Mercurius’ apartment at 1406 Brooklyn Ave. on May 31, 2016 to work on homework. A man followed her to the sixth-floor door and blasted Mercurius with a sub-machine gun to death before he fled.
Jurors raised their eyebrows and looked down as Assistant District Attorney Melissa Carvajal questioned the mumbling Junien.