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Bronx boy, 13, arrested for April stray bullet murder ordered to juvenile facility
A 13-year-old boy arrested for fatally shooting a 28-year-old man with a stray bullet outside a Bronx convenience store was ordered held in a juvenile facility without bail as the Bronx District Attorney's office builds a case against him, officials said Friday.
Instead of being sent to Family Court, the pre-teen was arraigned on murder, manslaughter, attempted murder, and weapons possession charges as a juvenile offender at Bronx Criminal Court.
A Bronx judge ordered the teen held in a juvenile facility as the case wends its way through the courts.
The teen, who is not being named because of his age, surrendered on Tuesday for the April 23 killing of 28-year-old plumber Daoud 'David' Marji.
Marji was walking back to Unk Candy and Grocery on University Ave. near W. Kingsbridge Road after grabbing a vape pen from his car when he was struck in the head by the stray slug about 4:55 p.m., surveillance video obtained by the Daily News shows. He collapsed in front of the store where he used to work.
'He was just walking then it looked like he turned around and that was it,' said a convenience store worker who identified himself only as Ray. 'Flash. Gone.'
A second victim, Tania Tubon, 33, was also struck by a stray bullet in the hip during the same incident, cops said.
The teen gunman and three accomplices, all wearing ski masks and dark-colored sweatsuits, fled north on University Ave. in a gray Honda Civic, cops said at the time. The accomplices are still on the loose.
The teen was the third adolescent under 14 this month to be arrested in the Bronx for killing a bystander with a stray bullet to the head.
Two weeks ago, two boys ages 13 and 14 were arrested and held without bail for the stray bullet killing of 16-year-old Evette Jeffrey just three and a half miles south of the April 23 shooting scene.
So far this year, 28 kids younger than 18 have been shooting victims citywide, NYPD Commissioner Jessica 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 at the time.
