The suspect accused of shooting Jets cornerback Kris Boyd outside a trendy Midtown hot spot last month had done everything possible to avoid detection while he was on the run — and even tried to jump out a window when U.S. Marshals raided his girlfriend’s upstate home looking for him, prosecutors say.
Fleeing upstate a day after the Nov. 16 shooting at Sei Less on W. 38th St., Frederick Green cut his long hair, dumped his cellphone and deactivated his Instagram account as he hid from police, Manhattan prosecutors said at his arraignment late Tuesday, describing the three-week manhunt for the shooter.
The NYPD quickly zerioed in on him as the suspected gunman. The shooting was caught on surveillance video and Green was identified as the triggerman through his Cash App account, which he used to pay for his bill at the trendy eatery.
When NYPD cops and the U.S. Marshals located him at his girlfriend’s apartment in Amherst, a suburb of Buffalo on Monday, he tried to avoid the police one last time, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Sarah Csanadi said.
“He attempted to jump out of a window from the apartment while the location was surrounded by multiple law enforcement officials,” Csanadi said. “He clearly had no intention of returning to Manhattan to face the charges.”
Detectives took Green back to Manhattan, where he was charged with attempted murder, assault and weapons possession. At his arraignment Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Kacie Lally ordered him held without bail.
His attorney, Anthony Ricco, said that Green attends Niagra College, near where he was grabbed. He also played down the manhunt for Green, noting that cops never reached out to the suspect’s family to try and broker his surrender.
“They told me that this massive national search took place and somebody found him up in Buffalo where he went to school. But at the same time, they never went to any one of his relatives who lived right here in New York City,” Ricco said. “They never contacted his family at all. They never knocked on his family’s door.”
Green is accused of shooting Boyd, 29, outside Sei Less, an Asian fusion hot spot that caters to sports stars, celebrities and other wealthy clientele, after he and his friends poked fun about how the Jets player and his friends were dressed.
Boyd, teammates Irvin Charles and Jamien Sherwood and a friend from Boyd’s native Texas pulled up to the restaurant in a Cadillac Escalade, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at a briefing last month.
As they entered the restaurant, a group of four to five men standing outside “begin to ‘chirp’ them about the clothing that they’re wearing, and are asking them, ‘What, do you think you’re better than us?’” Kenny said.
Boyd had intended to celebrate his friend’s birthday, but he and his entourage left about 10 minutes later after deciding they didn’t like the “vibe,” Kenny said.
As they left, the same group, who detectives learned had dined at Sei Less earlier that evening, again began to “verbally insult them, and once again, questioning their clothing,” Kenny said.
The taunts sparked an argument that quickly escalated into an all-out brawl, during which Green pulled a gun from a backpack and fired off two rounds, prosecutors said.
One of the shots hit Boyd, who was rushed to Bellevue Hospital with a bullet lodged near his right lung. He was released from the hospital after a few days, but returned over Thanksgiving after facing a setback in his recovery, he posted on social media.
“A fragment of the bullet that struck him entered a vein and lodged in his pulmonary artery before making its way into one of his lungs,” Csanadi said. “He requires further medical attention and possibly further surgeries to address this bullet fragment.”
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Police investigate after New York Jets cornerback Kris Boyd was shot in the abdomen on W. 38th St. between Broadway and 7th Ave. in Manhattan on Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
Green was last seen running east on W. 38th St. carrying a black bookbag before turning on Broadway toward W. 36th St., cops said.
Detectives tracked Green’s escape with neighborhood surveillance cameras and tracked his getaway car, a white BMW, to the Polo Ground Towers, a NYCHA complex in Washington Heights. He fled to upstate New York the next morning.
At the same time, detectives went through receipts from Sei Less and learned Green had used Cash App to pay for his bill. His picture, which was identical to the shooter, was on his Cash App account, prosecutors said.
Detectives also recovered social media posts which “led to other people” that helped prove Green was at the restaurant at the time of the shooting, officials said. A Crime Stoppers tip also helped cops identify Green.
Green lives in the Bronx and has four prior arrests, including one last year for reckless endangerment and a 2018 robbery arrest as a juvenile delinquent that was sealed, law enforcement sources said.
He’s due back in court on Friday.
