The heartbroken parents of Sanjay Samuel joined southeast Queens community and elected leaders and clergy on Sunday at a prayer vigil in the same Cambria Heights parking lot where their 13-year-old son was fatally shot, allegedly by a 16-year-old boy, during an altercation while he walked to school six days earlier.
While they were too overcome with grief to speak to the crowd, Sanjay’s uncle, Elvin Griffith, spoke on behalf of the family who, a day earlier, had donated his organs that saved four lives.
Griffith refuted police and media speculation that the youngster’s murder was in any way gang-related.
‘My nephew spent the last few months at my residence in Connecticut. During that period of time, he showed no interest in coming back to New York,” Griffith said during the Sept. 28 vig