Ashram Lochan was walked out of the 101st Precinct in Far Rockaway after he was booked on murder and other charges in the fatal drive by shooting of 10-year-old Justin Wallace in 2021.
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A second Far Rockaway man has been criminally charged in connection to the 2021 fatal drive-by shooting of 10-year-old Justin Wallace in the doorway of his Arverne home.
Ashram “Kevin” Lochan, 29, of Beach 45th Street in Edgemere, was arraigned Thursday night before Queens Criminal Court Marty Lentz on a criminal complaint charging him with murder, attempted murder, and other crimes.
Detectives from the 101st Precinct in Far Rockaway rearrested Lochan following his release from prison where he served 15 months on weapons charges after an arsenal of firearms was discovered in his home after police executed a court-authorized search warrant in July 2021 as part of the homicide investigation.
According to the criminal complaint, following eyewitness accounts and video surveillance of the shooting, it was determined that Lochan “worked in concert” with his cousin, 29-year-old Jovan Young of the Ocean Bay Apartments in Arverne on the night of Saturday, June 5, 2021.
Young fired his handgun multiple times at Wallace’s uncle, Kyle Forrester as he entered the front door of the home at 458 Beach 69th St. Forrester was struck three times in his back, once in his neck, and once in his hand. His nephew Justin, a 5th-grade student at Challenge Charter School, suffered a deadly gunshot wound to the heart as he was standing by the doorway.
EMS responded to the crime scene and rushed the youngster to St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway where he was declared dead. His uncle was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Center where he was treated for his gunshot wounds and survived. Young was arrested two days later and indicted by a Queens grand jury and criminally charged with murder, assault, and weapons charges. He remains detained at Rikers Island awaiting…
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