Brooklyn street co-named in honor of Vincentian-American youth fatally knifed two days before Christmas in December 2020
Community members on Saturday, Aug. 24 joined elected and other officials, and families and friends in the co-naming of East 8 th Street in the Kensington section of Brooklyn as Tyler Kobe Nichols Way. Nichols, whose parents hail from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, was 21, when he was inexplicably fatally killed on Dec. 23, 2020 by what his aunt, Carlene Chambers, a registered nurse, described as reported knife-wielding members of the Crisps gang. Chambers said Nichols and his brother, Shane, then 24, had gone to a Barbour shop a few blocks from their home in Kensington, when they were attacked by about five youths reportedly from the gang. “The guys jumped them,” Chambers told Caribbean Life at the time. “They made some gang slang, and five others showed up. “They also stabbed Tyler in the back,” she added. “They (medical personnel) pronounced him dead at Methodist Hospital. City Council Member Rita Joseph, the Haitian-born representative of the 40 th Council District in Br...