Monday, February 23 2026 - A Nigerian aspiring fashion designer was fatally sh0t in the head at a Brooklyn nightclub after a tussle with a drunk man who reportedly gr0ped his girlfriend.
Sheriff Shittu, 30, was k!lled when a gunman opened fire
inside Quilox Restaurant and Lounge in East Flatbush on Church Ave. near 95th
St. at about 4:25 a.m. Saturday, cops said.
According to NYDailyNews, Shittu was accompanied to the club
by his younger brother, Fawaz Shittu, to celebrate a friend’s birthday a day
before their mother was due to arrive for a visit from Nigeria.
“I was screaming his name,” Fawaz said, recalling the
aftermath of the shooting that killed his brother. “I was trying to wake him
up.”
Sheriff got into a tussle with his k!ller after the stranger
started drunkenly groping women, including the victim’s girlfriend, according
to Fawaz.
The brothers left the club just 45 minutes after arriving,
turned off by the disturbance, the brother said. But they returned minutes
later after realizing Sheriff had left his cell phone behind.
When they returned, the drunk was being escorted out, and
the club’s owner tried to convince the brothers to stay, Fawaz said.
“The owner was saying, ‘Don’t mind that person — he’s a
crazy guy’,” Fawaz recounted. “A few seconds later, I heard ‘pow,’ and I looked
down, and I saw my brother.”
A bartender rushed to perform CPR on Sheriff, who lay
motionless on the floor, Fawaz said.
The gunman ran off and has not been caught.
“He was able to escape,” Fawaz said of the killer. “I don’t
know how that happened or how he got the gun in the club. Security didn’t do
its job. They didn’t search. You’re supposed to check people and their bags.”
Medics rushed Sheriff to Brookdale University Hospital,
where he later d!ed, police said. But the victim’s family has kept him on life
support, hoping for a miracle.
“He has been pronounced dead, but we’re still hoping,” said
Salem Shittu, 24, another of the victim’s brothers. “We’re holding out with our
faith in God.”
“He was a very sweet person, very outgoing,” Salem added.
“He was protective of his family, his friends and his loved ones.”
The victim was shot the day before his 60-year-old mother,
Foluke Shittu, arrived on a preplanned trip to visit her sons’ home in Far
Rockaway, Queens. She learned of Sheriff’s fate only after her plane touched
down.
“My son was a very kind person,” Foluke said. “I love him.
We spoke on Friday, and I arrived on Sunday. That’s when they told me.”
Sheriff immigrated to the United States from Nigeria in
2018. He worked as a security guard while creating his own fledgling fashion
label, called Riff Ent.
“We’re going to keep pushing his brand,” said his brother
Salem. “We’re just trying make a way for one another.”Just as the family hopes
God will restore life to Sheriff, they’re praying his killer is brought to
justice.
“We want him to get life in prison, the maximum sentence,”
said Salem. “If there’s a death
penalty in New York, use that.”
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