Second 13-year-old boy busted in deadly NYC shooting of innocent man, as youth violence spikes in NYC: cops
A second 13-year-old boy was busted in the deadly shooting of an innocent man visiting his friend in the Bronx – just days after Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said that youth violence has soared in the city, according to cops.
The young teen was charged Wednesday evening with second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in the April 23 slaying of 28-year-old Daoud Marji, cops said.
The young teen was picked up Wednesday evening at LaGuardia Airport, where members of the NYPD's Warrants Squad nabbed him as he landed on a flight from Miami, sources said.
A week earlier, another 13-year-old boy surrendered to cops in connection to the same slaying – facing charges of second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter and criminal use of a firearm, authorities said.
Daoud, a 28-year-old plumber's apprentice from Yonkers, was not the intended target of the gunfire – nor was a 33-year-old woman who was struck in the hip and wounded in the fray, according to law enforcement sources, police sources said.
Daoud was meeting up with a pal from Detroit at University Avenue and West Kingsbridge Road just before 5 p.m. when bullets flew – with a single round striking him in the head, according to cops and his father.
He was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he clung to life but ultimately succumbed to his injuries.
Daoud's dad Saed Marji, 56, previously told The Post he encouraged his son not to travel to the Bronx, because he heard the area was bad.
Hours after that arrest was announced, a 15-year-old boy was shot and wounded, also in the Bronx, cops said.
The teen was blasted once in the right thigh at 11:58 p.m. Wednesday on Exterior Street in Concourse Village, authorities said.
The boy told police he heard gunshots and then realized he was hit, sources said.
He was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
Two males were seen fleeing on foot, according to the sources.
It was not immediately clear whether the teen was targeted or an innocent bystander.
The violence continued in broad daylight Thursday, when two 17-year-old boys were shot in the Bronx, apparently by stray bullets, cops and sources said.
One of the boys was blasted in the neck and the other in the arm around 1:20 p.m. at East 176th Street and Anthony Avenue in the Mount Hope neighborhood, police said.
Both were taken to Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where they were listed in stable condition, police said.
Neither of the victims have criminal histories, and they were shot from a distance – leading investigators to preliminary believe that neither was the intended target, sources said.
The troubling violence comes just days after Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch revealed that youth violence has skyrocketed in the Big Apple — and placed the blame on the state's contentious 'Raise the Age' law.
The number of kids under the age of 18 busted with a gun increased by a whopping 136% between 2018 and 2024, the top cop said Tuesday alongside Mayor Eric Adams at a crime stats briefing held at City Hall.
Over the same period, Tisch said the number of underage shooters soared 192%, while the number of juvenile victims of gun violence spiked by 81%.
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