By Rich Bockmann
A Brooklyn man is facing murder charges after he allegedly shot and killed his girlfriend’s ex-husband in an early morning altercation outside the South Jamaica Houses in May,the Queens district attorney said.
A week after police found Kelly Mullins, 33, shot dead inside his car early in the hours of May 31, Hashani Forrester was charged with murder, according to a criminal complaint filed by the Queens DA shows.
Forrester’s attorney, Bernard Udell, did not confirm or deny that his client shot Mullins, whom he described as a “violent parolee” who was stalking his ex-wife.
“From my investigation he was a stalking psychopath out to kill his ex-wife and her new boyfriend, and was probably drunk at the time,” he said.
Mullins’ half-sister Monique said her brother and his ex-wife, Cameo Boone, had been together since they were teenagers and were divorced for about a year with joint custody of their 4-year-old daughter.
“He was a very dedicated dad,” she said.
Sometime around late January/early February, Monique Mullins said, her brother, who went by “K.C.,” dropped in without notice at Boone’s Rochdale Village home to surprise his daughter and pick her up for school, but became enraged when he found Forrester in his ex-wife’s bed and chased him out of the home.
“This is from K.C. telling me this,” Mullins recalled. “He said he never saw Hashani again. I thought Hashani would go to the police. I mean, my brother chased him out of the house with a butcher’s knife.”
Boone declined to comment.
Mullins said Boone took an order of protection out against “K.C.” afterward, and from that point on his other half-sister, Tasha Warren, acted as the go-between for the two parents to pick up their daughter.
Warren said K.C. took his daughter to the park the day before he was murdered and then dropped the young girl off at her apartment in the 40 Projects, where she stayed the night. The next morning, “K.C.” and Boone showed up around the same time to pick the girl up and take her to school, Warren said.
“Whoever got there first was going to take her to school,” she explained.
Warren said she was on the phone with both “K.C.” and Boone just before 7 a.m. when she heard several shots fired before she ran out into the street to find her brother’s body sitting in his car, his face riddled with bullet wounds.
Police said Mullins was pronounced dead at the scene.
In addition to a second-degree murder count, Forrester was charged with manslaughter and criminal possession. His next scheduled court date is Oct. 1.
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