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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Yahoo
Teen suspect hospitalized, delaying court appearance in stray bullet slay of Bronx girl
The 14-year-old boy arrested in the shocking Bronx stray-bullet slaying of a 16-year-old girl was taken to the hospital Wednesday amid fears he might harm himself — delaying his court appearance to face murder charges, officials said. The teen was taken out of Bronx Central Booking and brought to a hospital Wednesday morning, about 24 hours after he was apprehended by a fugitive task force composed of NYPD cops and U.S. marshals. Victim Evette Jeffrey's heartbroken family hopes the teen spends the rest of his life behind bars. 'Give him the fullest extent of the law. He took her away,' Evette's grandmother told the Daily News Wednesday. 'You want to do big-boy things? Just throw the book at him.' The boy was nabbed Tuesday morning on Rev. James A. Polite Ave. near E. 163rd St., just six blocks from Monday's gang-related shooting outside the Bronx Career and College Preparatory High School campus in Morrisania. It's expected that the teen will return to court after a physical and psychiatric evaluation, a law enforcement source said. Prosecutors have charged him with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon. The victim's grieving grandmother, who declined to give her name, has just one question for the suspect. 'What are you doing?' she asked. 'You're gonna go to jail for God knows how long you're gonna end up doing. Somebody could come retaliate the same way you did.' The teen violence was sparked by a fistfight involving the shooter near Home St. and Tinton Ave. That clash was between two local street gangs, KOD — Kreep on Davidson — and FOE — Forest Over Everything, police said. The teen shooter was involved in an 'old-school fistfight' in the schoolyard and 'was the winner of the fight,' NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said Tuesday. But as he and his friends exited a walkway near the schoolyard a rival not involved in the earlier dustup ran up and punched the shooter in the face. When the shooter fell to the ground from the punch a 13-year-old friend passed him a gun, police said. The shooter opened fire with that weapon, aiming for the puncher but hitting Evette in the head, according to cops. 'You had a chance to walk away. But you needed to fight,' Evette's grandmother said. 'But why? For what? For your pride?' Evette was celebrating her one-year anniversary with her boyfriend when the shooting occurred. Her boyfriend tried to pull her behind a brick wall when the bullets started flying, her mother told the Daily News Tuesday. Nobody else was hurt. 'Evette just celebrated her 16th birthday on April 13, just one day shy of a month before this tragic incident took place and snatched our baby from us,' James Serrano wrote in a GoFundMe post seeking donations to help the family during the tragedy. 'Nonetheless, Evette Jeffrey was and still is a shining beacon of kindness, love, and unity for our family and the community around her.' Cops on Wednesday were still looking for the 13-year-old accomplice who handed the shooter the gun. Investigators were hoping to grab the adolescent at an appointment he had Wednesday with a parole officer for an unrelated crime, but he failed to show up, sources said. Cops are now working with his family to broker his surrender, the sources said. Evette's grandmother believes her granddaughter knew the shooter from the neighborhood. 'I think he's been here,' she said, looking around the family's apartment. 'There are so many kids, there's so many of them. But I think he has been here. They all know each other.' 'You took her life away,' she added. 'In a way, you took mine, too.'
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Yahoo
Bronx girl was celebrating anniversary with boyfriend when killed by stray bullet
The innocent 16-year-old girl struck by a stray bullet as she rode a scooter outside a Bronx school playground was celebrating her one-year anniversary with her boyfriend when she was killed, her heartbroken family said Tuesday. Evette Jeffrey had spent the afternoon with her beau when a 14-year-old gunman opened fire into a crowd outside the Bronx Career and College Preparatory High School campus near Home St. and Tinton Ave. in Morrisania. 'Her and her boyfriend were together for one year so they went out to eat and they went to the park and they just shot her,' the victim's shocked aunt told the Daily News Tuesday. Evette was riding her kick scooter just outside the school playground when the boy opened fire into a crowd, cops said. The gunfire was heard by Jeffrey's grandmother, who lived near the shooting scene. 'I was upstairs and I heard three shots because my windows face that way,' she said. 'I tried to reach (Evette) … and there was no answer. She wasn't connected (to wifi). So I decided to come down and as I was getting ready to leave, that's when my neighbors came and told me that she died.' A boy tried to pull Evette behind a brick wall for cover but a stray bullet struck her in the head, cops said. The teenage trigger man was aiming at a teenage boy who had punched him moments earlier, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters during a press conference with Mayor Adams at the scene Monday. Another teen handed the youthful shooter the gun before he fired three rounds into the crowd, police said. 'All the kids were running and screaming,' witness Julio Reyes told the Daily News Monday. 'I ran down and they were pumping her chest. It was a head shot, she was not responding. An officer was shaking her head, the little girl was already gone,' Medics transported Evette to Lincoln Hospital, where she died. 'The mom is absolutely inconsolable,' said Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, who went to Lincoln Hospital to speak to Evette's family. 'I'm so heartbroken. And we just recognized Mother's Day yesterday and now this mother has lost her child.' Evette had 'just turned 16 last month,' Tisch said. 'She should be home right now eating dinner with her family but instead you're talking about another child victim of gun violence.' Tisch called Jeffrey's death 'another senseless tragedy' in the city. So far this year, 28 youths under 18 have been shooting victims, Tisch said. At the same time, 17 adolescents have been arrested for pulling triggers. 'These are babies killing babies and it has to stop,' Tisch said. 'We are losing a generation of our young people as victims and as shooters' Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark added Monday. 'Kids need to know that they should be kids. They should be picking up books and not guns. And we're going to do everything we can to make sure we get that message out there.'
