The black man who shot a 3-year-old Brooklyn boy in the head asked the child’s babysitter to hold off on calling 911 to give him time to stash the gun

Akeem Bernard was ordered held on $75,000 bail in the shooting of Tharell Edward in the boy’s second-floor apartment on East 21st Sreet in Flatbush. Bernard, 22, who lives in the same building as the boy and was hanging out with the babysitter, stashed a black semiautomatic gun in a shoebox near the boy’s head. Bernard had been intoxicated all day.