Toraya Reid, the sister of Minnesota Timberwolves star Naz Reid, was found dead outside an apartment building in Jackson Township on Saturday morning. Police arrested her boyfriend, Shaquille Green, and charged him with her murder.
Police responding to calls reporting shots fired at around 11 a.m. on Sept. 6 discovered Toraya, 28, deceased from multiple gunshot wounds.
The prosecutor’s office said police saw a man running down a nearby street. They took him into custody without resistance. He was later identified as 29-year-old Shaquille Green, Toraya’s boyfriend.
“Green was taken into custody without incident and transported to Jackson Township Police Headquarters,” the prosecutor’s office wrote in a statement. Green is charged with murder and multiple weapons violations.
Naz Reid didn’t comment publicly on his sister’s death, but he shared 2 photos from their childhood on his Instagram page.
In a 2023 interview with MSP magazine, Naz said, “My older sister is super protective, she treats us like she’s our parent.”
Naz told the Minneapolis-St. Paul magazine that Toraya briefly played softball at Roselle Catholic High School in northern New Jersey.
Naz’s sister Jakahya called Green a “coward” in a post on Facebook. “We always send our condolences and say we could never imagine ourselves in that situation… and yet here I am. Facing the unimaginable. Without you by my side,” she wrote.
“My sister has a name,” Jakahya said in another post. “She is not just some girl, She’s not just the [NBA star’s] sister. She has a name and that is Toraya Reid. Respect her (expletive) or don’t mention her at all.”
Naz, 26, recently signed a $125 million contract extension with the Timberwolves.
