Crown Heights Basketball Coach Shoots Parent In Neck, Cops Say

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN -- A Crown Heights high school basketball coach is charged with shooting a player's parent in the neck, police said.

Todd Myles, 42, was arrested in the 81st Precinct Friday morning for critically injuring the 47-year-old father on the corner of Jefferson and Patchen avenues in Bed-Stuy on Dec. 22, police said.

Myles, who teaches at Paul Robeson High School in Crown Heights, is expected to be arraigned on attempted murder, assault and criminal use of a firearm charges in Brooklyn Criminal Court Friday, police said.

A Robeson basketball coach named Todd Myles appears in the 2004 documentary "Coach," about the school's previous coach, who left after allegedly having sex with a student, training Myles to replace him, according to IMDB.

"Myles was en route to a lucrative NBA career when a serious back injury changed his career path last year," the documentary summary reads.

"Coach Major will have to do everything in his power to guide Myles through his first year of coaching."

The Daily News also reported in 2008 that a Robeson basketball coach named Todd Myles saved a student's life, giving the 18-year-old mouth-to-mouth after he was stabbed in the neck and abdomen.

"I'm a basketball coach, a baseball coach and a teacher," Myles reportedly said. "I would have done what I did for anyone."

The Brooklyn coach began working as a substitute teacher in 2001, became a teacher in 2004 and currently earns an annual salary of $102,009, according to the Department of Education.

"We immediately reassigned Mr. Myles away from students and we’ll work to remove him from payroll as soon as legally possible," said a Department of Education spokesperson.

"We are providing support to the school and are working with the NYPD throughout this investigation."

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