The mother of a former pro basketball player gunned down during a neighborhood tournament in Harlem demanded justice at a vigil for her son.

Kinu Rochford, 35, was shot in the head while arguing with a gunman at the Kingdome tournament at NYCHA's King Towers on Lenox Ave. near W. 112th St. about 10:20 p.m. Friday, cops said. The killer remains on the loose.

 I need to find who did this to my baby,  the victim's mother, Eden Rochford, told the hundreds who gathered at Banneker Playground in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Tuesday evening for a Zone 6 elite summer league men's basketball tournament held in her son's honor.

 I need justice for him. And my message is, if you know something, if you saw something. I need you to say something. 

Born just moments before his brother and sister, Kinu was a triplet raised in East Flatbush, his mother said. He is also a father who leaves behind a 17-month-old son.

 He has a beautiful young son who looks just like him,  Eden said.

He's now the, what can I say? The quadruple,  she said of Kinu's son.  We have to keep the memory of the triplets going so now we've added him. He's a quadruple. 

The grieving mom recalled buying a child-sized basketball and a Mattel plastic hoop set for her triplets when they were just infants. The toys set Kinu on a trajectory that led him to play pro ball at arenas in Norway, Britain, Iceland and, ultimately, to the hardcourt where he lost his life.

 From 6 months (old) till his unfortunate demise, Kinu was always playing basketball,  his mother said.

The star forward played for James Madison High School and Globe Tech and Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey before embarking on a professional career in 2013 with Aris Leeuwarden in the Dutch Basketball League.

He also played in the British Basketball League, as well as for teams in Iceland and Portugal, before finishing his professional career with the Golden Eagle Ylli in the Kosovo Basketball Superleague in 2021.

As news of his murder spreads across the globe, Rochford's family has been inundated with condolences from abroad.

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