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Yahoo
20-05-2025
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Feds bust boy, 13, for handing teen the gun used in fatal shooting of innocent girl in Bronx schoolyard: sources
A 13-year-old boy who supplied the gun that killed an innocent 16-year-old girl in a Bronx schoolyard was nabbed Monday and charged with second-degree murder, cops and law-enforcement sources said. The boy — who had been at large since the deadly May 12 shooting of Morris High School freshman Evette Jeffrey — was picked up by the US Marshals Regional Fugitive Task Force at a family friend's apartment building Monday morning in NYCHA's Forest Houses, the sources said. The kid, who is turning 14 in two months, was also charged with second-degree attempted murder, first-degree manslaughter, reckless endangerment and gun possession raps, police said. He had at least two previous arrests last year: one for menacing with a knife and the other for criminal possession of stolen property, sources said. The boy is the second teen busted in connection to the senseless murder. The alleged 14-year-old gunman, who appeared before a judge from a hospital bed late last week, was charged with second-degree murder, prosecutors said. He pleaded not guilty and was ordered held without bail. 'The defendant fired numerous shots on school grounds in the direction of approximately 20 school-age children,' Assistant District Attorney Timothy Collins said. 'The defendant struck an innocent bystander, a 16-year-old girl, in the head. The incident is on video. The defendant has been identified as the shooter.' The boy allegedly used a semi-automatic pistol during the early evening melee outside 800 Home St. in the Morrisania neighborhood. The building houses three schools: Dr. Richard Izquierdo Health and Science and Science Charter School, Bronx Latin and Bronx Career and College Preparatory High School. Investigators believe the mayhem was sparked by a feud between street gangs — the Forest Over Everything crew and an upstart gang calling itself Kreep On Davidson, based at the Davidson Houses public housing complex, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said last week. 'The victim, Evette Jeffrey, was not involved in this dispute,' Kenny said. 'She was an innocent bystander who was simply trying to take cover behind the brick wall and was struck in the head by one of the rounds.' Relatives said Evette was celebrating her first anniversary with her boyfriend, also 16, at a Chinese restaurant after school and decided to stop at the playground — where she found herself in the line of fire. 'She's forever 16,' the girl's grandma has said. 'That's it.' Evette's grandmother couldn't bring herself to forgive the youngsters involved in the daylight violence that took her granddaughter's life. 'I don't forgive you,' she sobbed. 'I hold your family responsible because they should be watching you. Whoever handed you [the gun] or had it, I will never forgive you.'
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
14-05-2025
- Yahoo
Shattered grandmother of girl fatally struck by stray bullet reveals heartbreaking funeral decision: ‘She's forever 16'
A 14-year-old suspect was busted in a tragic gang-related stray-bullet shooting of a 16-year-old Bronx girl Tuesday — as her family made the heartbreaking decision to cremate her, so they can always remember her. 'We decided to have her cremated just so the family can have something,' the grieving grandmother of teen Evette Jeffrey told The Post Tuesday. 'The mom doesn't want her in the cemetery. The family doesn't want it.' 'They took her away from us. They took her away from me,' said the woman, asking only to be identified as 'grandma.' Just minutes after she spoke, a US Marshals task force picked up the suspected teen gunman near 952 Rev. James A. Polite Avenue, law enforcement sources told The Post. The teen, whose name is being withheld because of his age, was being held at the 42nd Precinct station late Tuesday and is facing murder charges, the sources said. The sources said the arrest may have been brokered by his own relatives — and said cops believe the shooting was sparked by a feud between street gangs. The beef was between the Forest Over Everything crew and an upstart gang calling itself Kreep On Davidson, based at the Davidson Houses public housing complex, the sources said. It is unclear which crew the alleged shooter belonged to. The accused killer allegedly had a scuffle with the rival gangbangers earlier in the day, which sparked the deadly encounter that left the teen girl dead hours later. Mayor Eric Adams said on X Monday night that the out-of-control 14-year-old suspect had even pulled a gun on his own mom. 'It is heartbreaking and maddening that gang violence has once again cut short the lives of two young New Yorkers,' Adams said in a separate post on Tuesday. 'A beautiful girl with so much life ahead of her and a 14-year-old suspect who could have chosen the right path.' Relatives said Evette was celebrating her one-year anniversary with her also-16-year-old boyfriend after school on Monday, and the young couple had been on a date at a Chinese buffet when they headed home and stopped at the Bronx Latin school's playground. Evette was celebrating her one-year anniversary with her also-16-year-old boyfriend after school on Monday, and the young couple had been on a date at a Chinese buffet when they headed home and stopped at the Bronx Latin school's playground. 'She was gonna go eat and then they'll be back, and I said, 'Let me know when you get there,'' her grandmother said. 'This was right after school, maybe 3 o'clock or 3:15 p.m.' Shortly after 5 p.m., Evette was riding her scooter when a brawl between a group of teens erupted into gunfire outside the Morrisania schoolyard, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters at the scene Monday night. 'I was upstairs and I heard three shots, because my window faces that way … not knowing it was her,' the grandmother said. 'You could tell they were gunshots. I heard sirens, but it didn't sound close, so I tried to reach her. 'She wasn't connected so I decided to come down and as I was getting ready to leave, that's when my neighbors came and told me,' she said. 'My neighbors came banging on the door, and I opened the door, and they said she got shot in the head. That was it.' The girl was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where she was pronounced dead less than an hour later. 'It's so much,' her grandmother said through tears. 'I still have to go to school. They probably know because it was released last night. I still have to go. I know her friends. They are devastated.' Tisch said the violence broke out after the gun-toting teen was slugged by another boy outside 800 Home Street, which houses three schools – Dr. Richard Izquierdo Health and Science and Science Charter School, Bronx Latin and Bronx Career and College Preparatory High School. The teen who was punched then chased the group and opened fire, striking Evette, the commissioner said. 'She died here,' her grandma said. 'They were just going to revive her, but she died here.' Her family said she was her mother's only child. 'She's forever 16,' the girl's grandmother said. 'That's it.' The senseless shooting, allegedly at the hands of a baby-faced thug, sparked outrage from relatives and neighbors. 'This is crazy. This is a kid who had no business with a gun,' Evette's aunt said. 'He had a gun, he was shooting at someone, and he is only 14. They don't care who they hurt. They don't care who they kill. 'Yes, I am angry because of him, my niece is no longer here, and this is not right,' she added. 'Kids killing kids.' One local shook his head over the tragedy. 'What happened to the days when you fight with your fists?' he asked. 'Where are they getting these guns from at such a tender age? 'Who are their role models, gangbangers? Wrong direction.' A Bronx mom whose teen daughter was friends with the slain girl blamed Adams and city officials for the fatal tragedy. 'The mayor is trash,' she said. 'I grew up with stuff like this all the time, but it's progressing, it's amplifying. They are getting younger and younger, kids killing kids. It's very disappointing.' Meanwhile, Evette's grandmother had an angry message for the alleged teen gunman who shattered her family. 'I don't forgive you,' she sobbed. 'I hold your family responsible because they should be watching you. Whoever handed you [the gun] or had it, I will never forgive you. 'They could say I'm sorry a million times, and I'll never forgive any of you.'
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Yahoo
NYPD hunting suspected 12-year-old accomplice in gang shooting that killed innocent teen girl: sources
Police are searching for a 12-year-old accomplice to the 14-year-old gangbanger accused of fatally shooting a promising teen girl at a Bronx playground. The younger thug allegedly handed the gun to the baby-faced accused shooter during the fatal encounter shortly after 5 p.m. Monday, with a stray bullet striking 16-year-old Evette Jeffrey in the head as she rode her scooter near a local school, killing her on the spot, police and sources said. The deadly dispute between rival street gangs – Forest Over Everything and the upstart crew Kreep On Davidson based at the Davidson Houses housing project in Morrisania — stemmed from a scuffle earlier in the day, sources said. It is not clear which gang the accused killer belonged to. The gun-toting teen was arrested Tuesday morning by the NYPD and a US Marshals task force while getting into a cab on Rev. James A. Polite Avenue, the sources said. Evette had been celebrating her one-year anniversary with her boyfriend at a local Chinese buffet when she was caught in the crossfire and killed, her family said. 'I don't forgive,' the girl's grieving grandmother said of the teen gunman. 'I hold your family responsible because they should be watching you. 'Whoever handed you [the gun] or had it, I will never forgive you.' This is a developing story. Please check back for more information.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Yahoo
2 innocent victims injured in NYC shooting just blocks from where 16-year-old girl was killed in crossfire
Two innocent passersby were shot and wounded in the Bronx Tuesday, just blocks away and less than 24 hours after a teenage girl was killed when she rode her scooter into the crossfire of rival teen gangs, according to police and law enforcement sources. Two gunmen ran up to a group of males at the corner of East 163rd Street and Washington Avenue in Melrose and opened fire at around 4:45 p.m., police said. But the gunfire instead wounded two people in a passing car — including an 11-year-old boy. The boy was cut by shattered glass and a 20-year-old male driver was shot in the left shoulder, according to cops and sources. The driver was taken to Lincoln Hospital where he was listed in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the NYPD. The boy was also treated at Lincoln for minor injuries. The suspects fled on Citi Bikes following the shooting, cops said. The victim's car was one of two vehicles riddled with bullets in the chaos, according to photos from the scene. A white Infiniti G37X sedan was parked beneath a tree next to a Municipal Credit Union building with a bullet hole the size of a golf ball punched through the rear window. Another sedan abandoned nearby had its rear window nearly completely blown out. There have been no arrests and the investigation is ongoing, police said late Tuesday. The gun violence erupted around the corner from the Morrisania schoolyard, where 16-year-old Evette Jeffrey was shot in the head and killed while riding her scooter Monday evening. Evette had been celebrating her one-year anniversary with her boyfriend when she was shot by a boy who opened fire following a fistfight between young alleged gangbangers. A 14-year-old boy was arrested Tuesday morning for the fatal shooting, which cops said was gang-related. Investigators are still searching for a 12-year-old accomplice who allegedly handed the baby-faced killer the gun. The deadly dispute between rival street gangs — Forest Over Everything and the upstart crew Kreep On Davidson based at the Davidson Houses housing project — stemmed from a scuffle earlier in the day, sources said. It was unclear late Tuesday if the two shootings were related, but sources said cops were investigating whether Tuesday's shooting was gang-related and involved teens. The Bronx has recently been plagued by gun violence that has claimed the lives of victims caught in crossfire. In late April, two innocent bystanders were gunned down in as many days. A trailblazing Harlem bodega owner and community fixture — Excenia Mette, 61 — was fatally shot in the head when she ran outside to check on her grandson. Barely a day had passed when Daoud Marji, a 28-year-old plumber's apprentice, was shot and killed in another stray bullet shooting.
