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2 days ago
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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.
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4 days ago
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Boy, 13, arrested for April stray bullet murder of man visiting old Bronx workplace
A 13-year-old boy has been arrested for the slaying of a man who was paying a visit to a Bronx convenience store where he used to work at when he was struck in the head by a stray bullet last month cops said Wednesday. The boy surrendered Tuesday and charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal use of a firearm for the April 23 killing of 28-year-old plumber Daoud 'David' Marji. The suspect's name was not released because he is a juvenile. 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. Shocking video shows Marji calmly walking down the street, toking on the vape pen, when he hears something, turns to look behind him and slumps to the ground. 'He went to his car to get a vape and was walking back,' said a convenience store worker, who identified himself as Ray. 'He was just walking then it looked like he turned around and that was it. Flash. Gone.' The shot that killed Marji was fired from across the street and down the block, police sources said at the time. A second victim, Tania Tubon, was also struck by a stray bullet in the same incident, cops said. Tubon, 33, said she was on her way home after work with her 10 and 14-year-old sons when she was hit in the hip. She later took herself to Woodhull Hospital where she was treated and released within a few hours. 'It's scary. If I'd been a few feet over. It could have been me who died,' Tubon said. 'I'm scared for my two sons. It's very difficult to live in the city. It's crazy.' 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. Medics rushed Marji to St. Barnabas Hospital but he could not be saved. 'He was a nice guy,' said Ray, the clerk at Marji's old workplace. 'Like everyone else he was getting better in life, getting comfortable from what I seen from the outside. He hasn't been here in years. He just came by to say 'Hi' to the boss. I guess wrong time, wrong place.' The Yonkers resident was also planning to hang out with a friend visiting the area from Detroit, his distraught father, Saed Marji, 56, said. It was the Detroit friend who delivered the awful news to Marji's family. Marji's father rushed to the hospital but his son was already dead. He later saw the security footage showing his son's murder. 'You have to be very careful, don't go to the bad areas,' the father said. 'It's a bad area where he was. You have to be worried. But he's been there a lot. Everybody there, they know him.' A woman who only identified herself as Nesrin said she's lived above Marji's family in Yonkers for more than 15 years and considers them her extended family. Nesrin, 54, described Marji as a 'very nice', 'very peaceful' and 'helpful' man who was beloved by his neighbors. Marji was currently working as a plumber but also helped out at a relative's smoke shop and did other odd jobs to make ends meet, Nesrin said. '[I'm] very mad you know. He was very young. He's 28. He's my kids' age,' she said at the time. '[The shooter] destroyed his family. His mother, his dad, his brother. Ruined their lives.'
