And like you heard the commissioner say, both 28-year-old Kenyon Tillett, a traffic warden, and 25-year-old Tarique James, an employee at the LIU, were charged criminally. Tillett was the first to appear before Magistrate Baha Shoman and he was read charges of one count of aggravated assault upon Micah Goodin, one count of wounding upon Tae Medina, and one count of discharging a firearm in a public place. He was represented by Ronell Gonzales, who was substituting for attorney Dickie Bradley, who could not make it to court.
Tarique James entered the courtroom afterwards with his attorney, Norman Rodriguez and was read a single charge of discharging a firearm in public. Like Tillett, no bail was granted and he was also remanded.
In Tillett's report to the police, he stated that he was trying to defuse an altercation when someone from inside Goodin's vehicle fired shots at him, so he fired back. Goodin's report states that they were being threatened by a group of men who approached Goodin's vehicle in an aggressive manner, prompting James to fire shots into the air preventing the men from attacking Goodin.
Due to the nature of the offences, both men were remanded to prison until July 19th.
