Tuesday, May 13`, 2025
Year : 2, Issue: 37
WABC: A 14-year-old boy is in custody in connection with a 16-year-old innocent bystander who was fatally shot in the head on Monday in the Bronx.
It started as what police describe as an old-school, school-yard fist fight.
The problem was, it was a fight between two rival gang members, and someone brought a gun.
The innocent 16-year-old was caught in the crossfire as shots rang out.
Evette Jeffrey was shot in the head while on a scooter and died outside Bronx Latin School on Monday in the Morrisania section around 5 p.m.
“One of my neighbors knocked on the door. They was banging on the door. And we just ran and when I got there she was on the stretcher and they were pumping her chest. And I knew she was gone. I was just screaming, she’s dead,” Jeffrey’s grandmother told Eyewitness News.
Investigators say the 14-year-old boy who had been punched and knocked to the ground was slipped a pistol by someone and then allegedly fired three shots into a crowd.
The fight was captured by school security cameras.
“From the video that we saw of that incident, it appears that our shooter was actually the winner of that fight. The altercation then carried out onto the walkway behind the school, where another individual ran up and punched the shooter. That person, we believe, was the intended target,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.
Police said charges are pending against the 14-year-old, who police say has been arrested before.
Police may be looking to make more arrests as they continue to investigate how the alleged young shooter got his hands on the gun.
Less than two months ago, just three blocks away, teenagers fired shots at each other and struck a school bus carrying young special needs students.
So far in 2025, there have been 28 victims and 17 shooters, all under the age of 18, in just over four months. In 2024, in the Bronx, shooting victims under the age of 18 went up 200% compared to 2018.
