NEW YORK — Frederick Green, 20, of the New York City, was arraigned late Tuesday night and faces charges of attempted murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon following the November shooting of Jets player Kris Boyd in Midtown Manhattan.
Authorities were able to track Green down using tips and surveillance video.
Green was found in an off-campus apartment at the University at Buffalo North Campus in Amhurst, New York on Monday morning.
“After about 15 minutes, he did realize that he wasn’t going to get away. He peeked out the window; we thought he was going to jump out but we had a good perimeter. Eventually he just came out with his hands up and was taken into custody,” a U.S. Marshall said.
He was transferred to a Midtown police precinct where he was questioned.
His defense attorney had requested home detention and bail, but prosecutors successfully argued that Green was a flight risk because he had cut off most of his hair following the Nov. 16 shooting. He also changed his phone and deactivated his social media accounts, they said.
Detectives recovered video of the shooting outside Sei Less on West 38th Street that shows the altercation between Green and Boyd ended when Green “briefly took a shooter’s stance by extending his arm outward” and fired two shots, according to the criminal complaint. The muzzle flash from one of the shots is visible on video.
Police said they identified Green through witness tips, cell phone data and surveillance images and followed him to the Buffalo area.
Law enforcement officers tracked a grey Mercedes registered to Green’s girlfriend when they got a tip that he was staying with a friend in Amhurst. Police surrounded the second-floor apartment Monday morning before his arrest.
He has four prior arrests, one for reckless endangerment in 2024 and three others that are sealed, unlawful possession of personal identification and criminal possession of a controlled substance earlier this year and a robbery arrest in 2018, when he was a juvenile.
Boyd was shot in the abdomen on Nov. 16, and the bullet traveled to his lung and lodged in the pulmonary artery, police said. He underwent multiple medical procedures, posting Nov. 19 that he was “starting to breathe on my own.“
Last week, Boyd surprised teammates by showing up at the team facility.
Boyd, known for his special teams prowess, attended the special team’s meeting. At the end of the session, he was the player who broke down the meeting, much to the delight of his teammates. He stayed much of the day, reconnecting with teammates and coaches.
(ABC News and ESPN contributed to this report.)
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