A suspect was arrested Thursday for the murder of a gay Brooklyn teen found burned and shot in the head on a remote section of Flatbush freight train tracks three months ago.
Isiah Baez, 19, is charged with the killing of Deandre Matthews, also 19, whose body was found Feb. 7 after he never returned from a night out in his mom’s SUV.
Baez lives in Flatlands, just over a half-mile away from the railbed off Flatbush Ave. and Avenue H where cops found Matthews dead. Baez is also charged with weapon possession and tampering with physical evidence.
A second man, Mcprecia Remy, 24, was arrested May 4 and charged with concealment of a corpse and tampering with physical evidence. He lives nearby Baez.
Shortly after his killing, Matthews’ family said they believed he was killed because he was gay. An NYPD spokesman had no info Thursday about a motive for the slaying.
“This should not have happened. Not to Deandre. Not to someone filled with so much love, and so many that love him in return. But an enemy has done this. This enemy has a four-letter name. Its name is called hate,” Pastor Louis Straker, Jr. said at his funeral.
Matthews’ mother, Danielle Matthews, reported him missing after he borrowed her SUV and didn’t come home Feb. 6. She used an electronic tracking device to locate her charred Jeep Cherokee on Troy Ave. in Crown Heights several miles from the body.