The 15-year-old Venezuelan migrant who allegedly shot a tourist then turned his gun on NYPD officers in Times Square “needs to pay,” his aunt told The Post.
“He needs to pay for it. It was an irremediable error, and whatever the judge decides is what he needs to do …There’s nothing more to do in hindsight,” Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa’s maternal aunt said.
The woman, also a Venezuelan migrant who came to the Big Apple 10 months ago, said the family was “shocked” when they learned from cops he allegedly tried to rob JD Sports on West 42nd St. — then blasted a Brazilian tourist and squeezed off two rounds at pursuing cops on Feb. 8.
Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa’s maternal aunt told The Post her nephew “must pay” for his “irremediable error.” Steven Hirsch
Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa’s aunt told The Post she and the rest of his family were “shocked” to learn of his alleged crime. BRIGITTE STELZER
Cops cuffed the teen migrant in his aunt’s Yonkers home — where he and his mom were trying to hide out — on Feb. 9. Obtained by NY PostRivas-Figueroa and his mom hightailed it from the Stratford Hotel on West 70th St., where they’d been staying since September, to the aunt’s home in Yonkers within hours.
“Jesus only said there was a problem when [he and his mom] showed up, but . . . we didn’t know the magnitude of the problem until officials showed up and they told us what had happened,” recalled the woman.
His mother has been detained by immigration officials since the accused gunman was collared on Feb. 9, according to the aunt.
“We want liberty for her, because it’s not her fault what her son has done. And that they’ll give her an opportunity … to fight for her son. Whatever has happened, that’s still her son,” she said in Spanish.
Here’s the latest NYP coverage on the cop beatings by migrants in Times Square:
- NYC migrant accused in vicious beating of Times Square cops arrested again after he’s bailed out
- Migrant who kicked NYPD cop in Times Square brawl takes plea deal that could land him in jail for one year
- Cops allegedly beaten by rowdy migrant mob near Times Square — with suspects later freed without bail
- Hochul steps up call to deport migrant mob busted in cop-beating caught on video
- Soft-on-crime Manhattan DA Bragg indicts 7 migrants in Times Square attack on NYPD cops — after letting several go without bail
- Migrant teen accused in Times Square attack on cops is arrested again for Macy’s robbery
- Migrants busted in brutal beating of NYPD cops in Times Square are members of bloodthirsty ‘Tren de Aragua’ gang: feds
- NYC migrant accused of beating cops in Times Square, punching and biting store workers whines he’s the one in danger as judge sets $100K bail
- Migrant teen charged in Times Square shooting ‘needs to pay,’ his aunt says
- A look at all the asylum-seekers charged in Times Square attack on NYPD officers
Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa allegedly shot a tourist then turned his gun on NYPD officers in Times Square on Feb. 8. AP
Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa is being held in a juvenile detention center without bail. Obtained by NY PostOn Feb. 10, a judge ordered that Rivas-Figueroa be held without bail in a juvenile detention center.
He’s been charged as an adult with attempted murder in connection to the shooting.
