(UPDATED) Arrest Made Following J’Ouvert Parade Shooting of St. John's Student

Update: NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said Tuesday that a man has been charged with second degree murder in the shooting death of Tiarah Poyau.

Regenald Moise, a 20-year-old Ditmas Park resident, was arrested Monday morning near the intersection of Parkside Avenue and Parade Place, Boyce said.

According to police, after the early morning shooting, Moise went to a friend's apartment where he fired two bullets from a 9mm gun into a wall and then punched a mirror, cutting his hand. Moise then hid the gun on the premises.

Police responding to that apartment found the gun, which matched a 9mm shell casing found at the scene of Poyau's death, Boyce said.

When Moise was arrested, Boyce said, he had a wounded hand that had been bandaged. Boyce said he told detectives that, "I think I shot somebody at the parade ground," adding, "I didn't think the gun was loaded."

According to Boyce, Moise had five previous arrests, but his police record is sealed.

Boyce said that when she was shot, Poyau was walking about 20 feet behind a group of three friends. The friends heard a gunshot, turned, and saw Poyau fall to the ground, he said.

Boyce described Poyau as "just a stellar person" with "no issues in her life whatsoever" that would have linked her to the shooting.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

BROOKLYN, NY — One of the two people killed in a shooting Labor Day at Brooklyn's annual J’Ouvert West Indian Parade has been identified as Tiarah Poyau, 22, a student at St. John’s University.

Poyau, who is originally from Linwood Street in Brooklyn, was embarking on her career and was beginning to travel the globe: She had just wrapped up a prestigious summer internship in international taxation at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York. She has held past part-time jobs at Eataly. St. John's University has campuses in Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island.

"My greatest achievement was in Spring of 2014 when I studied abroad in Paris, Rome, and Seville," she wrote on her LinkedIn profile.

Poyau was shot in the eye with a bullet just after 4 a.m., reported the New York Post. Last year, a shooting at the same parade killed Carey Gabay, a legal aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Police believe Carey Gabay, a Harvard-trained attorney and aide to Cuomo, was randomly caught in cross-gang gunfire in front of the Ebbets Field Houses in Crown Heights, near Prospect Park, around 3:40 a.m. Earlier this year, Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton announced that three men had been charged with murder in connection to the shooting.

This year, two people, including Poyau, have been killed and five others shot at the J’Ouvert Parade.

A man and a woman were shot around 4 a.m. at Empire Boulevard and Flatbush Avenue. A 72-year-old woman was struck in the arm by a stray bullet while trying to flee that shooting. She was taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition.

The 17-year-old man was shot in the chest and died, but the woman was in stable condition, police said. A short while later, Poyau was fatally shot at Empire Boulevard and Washington Avenue.

And in a separate incident, at 6:50 a.m., police said a 20-year-old man was shot in the leg at Rogers and Clarkson avenues. He is in stable condition.

[Editor's note: a previous version of this story incorrectly listed Gabay as a former legal aide to Gov. Cuomo.]

Pictured at top: Tiarah Poyau. Photo via Facebook.