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Hundreds attend vigil for man killed in Harlem basketball tournament shooting A vigil was held Sunday in Brooklyn for Kinu Rochford, who was shot and killed during a basketball tournament in Harlem on Friday night.
The Kingdome tournament was taking place at a basketball court on Lenox Avenue between 112th and 115th streets when shots rang out.
Rochford, 35, was struck in the head and taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police say.
Two others, a 28-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman, were also struck and injured.
Both are expected to survive.
Hundreds gathered Sunday at Wingate Park in Crown Heights, where they say Rochford loved to play basketball."You can see how he was loved.
All these people ..
they came out for Kinu," family friend Malcolm Thomas said."It's sad to say I don't got him no more, but look at this," said Kairo Rochford, Kinu Rochford's brother.
"My brother is still bringing people together after he's deceased.
"CBS News New York"That's where we came from.
That's how we learned our discipline, our motivation, sacrifice, hard work," he said."One of us made the dream for both of us to stay alive, but now, ain't no dream no more 'cause my brother ain't alive.
So I gotta be the man I can for my family.""He shows the love for basketball in every way that he can," she said.
"He was dominant, passionate.
He showed respect and love to everybody and everyone." She added,"His legacy is going to live on forever.
He is going to always play on the court with us.
I'm going to always feel like I'm his coach, regardless." Family members described Kinu Rochford as a devoted father, brother and friend whose smile and energy brought people together.
Mother mourns son's death Mother Eden Rochford spoke to CBS News New York on Saturday.
She said Kinu Rochford was a triplet and was born in Brooklyn.
Kinu Rochford played college basketball during his time at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Eden Rochford said after college, he went overseas and played professionally.She said he continued playing in local summer basketball tournaments when he returned home to New York, adding he was in the wrong place at the wrong time Friday night.
The city nonprofit Win said Kinu Rochford worked with them as an intake coordinator at a Brooklyn homeless shelter.
Anyone with any information on the deadly shooting is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at.