16-year-old Jeremy Sanchez has confessed to the shooting of 19-year-old Kenneth Archbold in Harlem. He was called into court on October 3rd, 2012 for the murder which occurred on July 15th, 2012 at Lenox Ave. & 135th street around 2 a.m.
Sanchez was arrested on August 29th for an armed robbery attempt near the George Washington Bridge, and it was then that he confessed to murdering Archbold on July 15th, just two days after Archbold's daughter was born.
"We started chasing them.I went after one, but he got away. When I came back (Archbold) was being beaten up. I had a .380 pistol and I shot him three times."
He appeared in court wearing an orange jumpsuit with "OY" written on it, which is his gang's name. Archbold's mother was distraught at her son's death, as Kenneth had grown up in Harlem but moved to Teaneck, N.J., to escape this exact type of gun violence in the neighborhood.
"He thinks he's living out a movie," Archbold's mother said of Sanchez. "My son is gone. He's not coming back. His daughter is going to have no father. I don't think he understands that."
Sanchez played a hardcore teenage gangster named "J" in the highly controversial indie film "Toddlers," which depicts youth gang life in a very realistic fashion. In one scene of the film, J and some of his friends charge into an apartment and shoot and kill two people before setting the place on fire. Extremely realistic acts of violence, all committed by young kids, make up this film from start to finish. When the film was released on DVD earlier this year, director Termaine (M5) Brown met a load of criticism. He says he didn't cast any real actors, but rather recruited kids from the neighborhood to play out the hardcore roles to make it more realistic. Brown reportedly told the Daily News back in January:
"That's what's going on, I'm just showing it. You hear about these murders, but people don't see how it happens. I show how these incidents happen. These are real-life situations."
Source: nydailynews.com
