Mother of victim slain in 2019 Brownsville Old Timers’ Day shooting awaits sentencing of gunman

A Brooklyn mom who lost two sons to gun violence a dozen years apart says she’s looking forward to getting justice for her firstborn, who was shot dead at an Old Timers’ Day event in Brownsville in 2019.

The shootout between Kyle Williams, 24, and another gunman killed Jason Pagan and wounded 11 others. Williams was found guilty of second-degree murder and reckless endangerment by a jury and will be sentenced Wednesday in Brooklyn Supreme Court.

Bernice Perez has made custom T-shirts honoring her son, Pagan, for family and friends to wear at the sentencing. The proceeding will be a new experience for her – the 2007 shooting of her other son, Joel Moore, remains unsolved.

“We have four chambers to our hearts,” said Perez, 61. “The first of my chambers was blown out with [Joel]. Now I’ve lost two chambers. I don’t even know why I’m living.”

The gun battle at the 56th annual Old Timers’ Day event sparked a debate between then-Mayor Bill de Blasio and Eric Adams, who at the time was Brooklyn’s borough president, about whether it qualified as a mass shooting.

“That phrase is usually reserved for a different type of situation than what I know this to be so far,” de Blasio said.

Days after the shooting, Adams vehemently disagreed on “The Brian Lehrer Show.”

“We normalize the large number of shootings that are going through economically challenging areas,” he said. “That was a mass shooting.”

More than 2,000 people were at the Brownsville Recreation Center on July 27, 2019, listening to a live band’s cover of “Family Reunion” by the O’Jays when Williams confronted Pagan around 11 p.m.

The two got into an argument and Williams fatally shot Pagan, 38, in the head and torso, according to Oren Yaniv, a spokesperson for the Brooklyn district attorney, recounting evidence from the trial. A gun battle ensued between “two rival groups,” he said. All of the people wounded were…