Frederick Greene, a Bronx man who authorities say has been arrested four times before, was charged Tuesday with attempted murder, assault and weapons possession in the shooting death of the New York Jets quarterback. Kris Boyd Nov. 16 outside a Midtown restaurant.
Green, 20, was holed up at his girlfriend's apartment in upstate New York and was identified through social media posts and Crime Stoppers information, police sources told the New York Daily News. U.S. Marshals took him into custody Monday in Amherst, New York, a suburb of Buffalo.
Boyd, 29, was leaving the Asian fusion restaurant Sei Less with two teammates and another friend around 2 a.m. when he was shot in the stomach and taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition. According to police, the bullet lodged near his right lung, in the pulmonary artery.
On November 19, he posted on social media that he had “started breathing on his own” but was readmitted to the hospital two weeks ago due to health complications. However, Boyd has recovered so much that last week he suddenly appeared at the Jets' practice facility and attended a special teams meeting.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenney said at a news conference last month that the shooting occurred after a group of four to five men “chirped” at Boyd and his companions outside a restaurant, making fun of their fashionable clothes.
The confrontation continued as Boyd and Jets teammates Irwin Charles And Jamien Sherwood and another friend left the restaurant within minutes of deciding not to dine there. When they left, the same group again began “verbally abusing them and questioning their clothing again,” Kenny said.
A fight ensued and one of the gunmen, later allegedly identified as Green, fired two shots from a pistol, hitting Boyd. Investigators have released surveillance footage of the shooter and asked for the public's help in identifying him.
In an email to The Times on Nov. 17, an NYPD spokesman said, “The wanted man is described as having a medium build. He was last seen wearing a black cap, black sweatshirt, black pants, multi-colored sneakers and carrying a black book bag.”
Green had four previous arrests, including one in 2024 for reckless endangerment and another in 2018 for a robbery that was kept under wraps because he was a minor, police told the Daily News.
Boyd's teammates were delighted to see him back at the training ground on December 3.
“I had friends who didn’t survive gunshot wounds, so to see him walk around with a smile on his face, you have to be able to [talk] I mean, with him, it's always a blessing,” Jets forward Jermaine Johnson told ESPN.[Guns] “They're not toys and they're very deadly, so the fact that he got away from them is a blessing.”
Boyd is in his first year with the Jets after spending the last two seasons with the Houston Texans and from 2019-22 with the Minnesota Vikings, who selected him in the seventh round of the 2019 draft out of Texas.
