L.B. man indicted for Channel Park Homes slaying

Two months after he was arrested by Long Beach police and charged in the fatal shooting of 28-year-old Tyrenzo Brown at the Channel Park Homes, suspected gunman Antonio Webb was indicted last week and faces 25 years to life in prison.

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said that Webb, 22, of Long Beach, was arraigned on Dec. 10 on a grand jury indictment in connection with Brown’s murder. He was charged with second-degree murder and three counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, both felonies.

“Everyone in Nassau County has a right to live, go to work and raise a family without the threat of gun violence,” Rice said in a statement. “The Channel Park community and local law enforcement united in action when this tragic murder happened and we will continue to fight to secure justice.”

Webb, who pleaded not guilty to the charges, is suspected of shooting Brown at the apartment complex on Sept. 27, just months after he finished a four-year jail stint for the armed robbery and beating of a local Chinese food deliveryman.

According Newsday, Webb’s attorney, Jeff Groder, told acting state Supreme Court Justice Teresa Corrigan that Webb, a parolee, planned a vigorous defense against the charges.

Though Groder said that Webb never fled from Long Beach and police found him at home — a short distance from where the shooting happened — police say that Long Beach and Nassau County detectives chased Webb during a foot pursuit and arrested him.

Police have yet to disclose a motive for the attack, though Long Beach Police Commissioner Mike Tangney told the Herald after the shooting that Brown was with a group outside 5 Birch Court just before 1 a.m. when Webb allegedly opened fire, in what Tangney described as a “sudden attack.”

Brown, who had visited his daughter at the complex that night, was taken to South Nassau Communities Hospital, where he was pronounced dead from multiple gunshot wounds.

Two days after the killing, local clergy, community leaders and residents gathered to decry the violence and the “apathy” among residents, and called for additional security measures at the Channel Park Homes, which is run by the Long Beach Housing Authority.