The case of a college student gunned down on a Brooklyn stoop more than two years ago is finally headed to court after investigators arrested a man accused of pulling the trigger.
shooting Ethan Williams of Indiana
. The sophomore student was found around 2:30 a.m. on Eldert Street in Bushwick with a gunshot wound to the chest. He later died at Wyckoff Medical Center. Williams, a student attending Indiana University, had traveled to New York City for a skateboard tournament when a bullet ended his life on Oct. 24, 2020. The 20-year-old had been sitting with friends on the stoop outside of the Airbnb rented for their visit.
"He dreamed of visiting New York since he was a boy and saw the movie 'Spiderman.' Ethan was living that dream on a trip to New York when he was struck by a stray bullet and killed," the family said in a statement to
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