One Year After Her Son’s Murder, A Mother Prays For Answers
This past Sunday at 4:12am, Glenda Martin-Grant will have spent a full year without one of the three sons she raised on her own – and without any answers as to who shot and killed 23-year-old Gerard ‘Geezy’ Grant as he sat with a friend in his car on East 16th Street and Avenue I.
Despite the NYPD offering a $12,000 reward for information about the horrific crime, which also left Grant’s friend paralyzed, no arrest has been made – and while all Grant’s family wants is their son and brother back, the best they can hope for is some kind of closure to the worst year of their lives.
“This is still up in the air,” Grant’s mother, an adjunct professor of nursing at SUNY Downstate, told the Daily News in an article published today. “The killer is still walking the streets free. That’s the one thing that is just eating me away.”
A popular events planner and model, Grant was a business student about to graduate from Kingsborough Community College at the time of his death, which came not long after he had been handing out fliers promoting a Valentine’s Day party outside the E-Savoy nightclub at 2192 Flatbush Avenue, PIX11 reported.
After leaving the club around 4am, he was traveling with a friend to the Midwood home of a woman who called asking for tickets to the Valentine’s Day party – but, PIX11 reported, the GPS took the two men to the dead end at Avenue I and East 16th Street.
“He wasn’t paying attention, and someone came from behind … that was it.” NYPD Detective Mike Gaynor told PIX11.
Police said someone shot multiple times into Grant’s head and body at close range.
The crime has left police scratching their heads.
“They’re both good guys,” a police source told the Daily News in October. “It’s not a typical shooting, this wasn’t a gang shooting, this wasn’t a drug shooting — at least that (police) are aware of. These guys didn’t have criminal records.”
Now, a year after Grant’s death, his mother and her two surviving sons will go into Grant’s room and pray that they will not be without answers at this time next year.
“We’re just gonna think of him, how he used to crack jokes, just go down memory lane,” Martin-Grant told the Daily News. “And at the same time they heard the shots a year ago, we will all be in his room, praying for some sort of closure and justice.”
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s crime stoppers hotline at 800-577-TIPS. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the crime stoppers website or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) and then entering TIP577.