A stepfather allegedly gave his stepson a gun and told him to “do what he had to do” in a botched hit on his nephew that left an innocent teenager dead in Westchester County, prosecutors said.

Evil stepfather Phillip Ferrill, 48, is accused of giving a gun to his stepson Tyrese Coghill, 22, before the young man shot Zyaire Fernandez to death while shooting another person in Mount Vernon last year. Iohud.com reported.

“If it weren’t for this defendant providing that gun, Zyaire Fernandez would be alive today,” Deputy District Attorney Adrian Murphy said in Westchester County Court on Friday, according to the outlet.

Coghill pleaded guilty to a murder charge and is cooperating against Ferrill, who now faces his own murder charge, according to reports.

Prosecutors said the deadly encounter took place in March of last year, when Coghill was helping Ferrill move into an apartment in Yonkers.

They said a group of three teenagers, including Fernandez and Ferrill’s nephew, accosted Coghill on the street, brandishing a knife and a gun.

That’s when Ferrill appeared and got into a shouting match with his nephew, whom he had accused of stealing from him in the past, Murphy told the court.

After the fight ended, Ferrill allegedly took a 9mm semi-automatic handgun from a safe in his apartment, gave it to his stepson and told him to “do what he had to do,” implying that he should fly home. nephew. officials said.

Coghill found the teens on the street and opened fire on the nephew, but Fernandez was the one who was wounded, the report said.

The gun was allegedly later found in the oven in Ferrill’s apartment, and Murphy told the court that video evidence would show him retrieving it from his stepson’s girlfriend’s apartment.

Ferrill is charged with second-degree murder, second- and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, hindering prosecution and tampering with physical evidence.