{"id":8908,"date":"2025-05-13T17:16:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T17:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=8908"},"modified":"2025-05-13T17:16:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T17:16:27","slug":"16-year-old-innocent-bystander-shot-and-killed-near-nyc-school-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=8908","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old innocent bystander shot and killed near NYC school: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A 16-year-old innocent bystander was shot and killed by a 14-year-old after a fight broke out between a group of teenagers near a school building in New York City, officials said.<\/p>\n

“Our city has suffered another senseless tragedy tonight,” NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said during a press conference.<\/p>\n

At approximately 5:05 p.m. on Monday, police responded to 911 calls of a female who was shot near the Bronx Latin School in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

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A 16-year-old bystander was shot and killed after a fight broke out between teenagers near a New York City school, officials said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Once officials arrived on the scene, they found a 16-year-old victim, later identified as Evette Jeffrey, to be “unconscious and unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head,” the NYPD said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey was transported to Lincoln Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead, Tisch said.<\/p>\n

“She should be home right now eating dinner with her family, but instead we are talking about another child victim of gun violence,” Tisch said.<\/p>\n

Video recovered from the school showed a group of children leaving the schoolyard and entering a walkway alongside the building, when a fight broke out, officials said.<\/p>\n

A 14-year-old male wearing a white T-shirt and shorts was punched in the face by another male, who then proceeded to punch several other people in the crowd, police said.<\/p>\n

Someone handed a pistol to the 14-year-old, who then proceeded to run up to the male who attacked him, officials said. The teen then fired three rounds of gunfire into the crowd, officials said.<\/p>\n

In the video footage, Jeffrey is seen riding from the schoolyard toward the walkway on a scooter, police said. She “does not engage in the fight,” but walks over to another male at the edge of the group who “attempts to pull her behind a brick wall for cover,” officials said.<\/p>\n

Despite the male’s efforts in shielding her, Jeffrey was shot in the head and immediately fell to the ground, police said.<\/p>\n

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A 16-year-old bystander was shot and killed after a fight broke out between teenagers near a New York City school, officials said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Jeffrey, who had just turned 16 this month, was a student at nearby Morris High School, officials said. Her grandmother told New York ABC station WABC<\/a> that she will “never forgive” the suspected shooter or anyone involved in the death of her granddaughter.<\/p>\n

The 14-year-old alleged shooter was taken into custody by police on Tuesday, according to WABC.<\/p>\n

“You can say you’re sorry a million times, I will never forgive you, any of you,” the grandmother said.<\/p>\n

Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson said Jeffrey’s mother is “absolutely inconsolable.”<\/p>\n

“She got the worst phone call that no parent should ever get, that her child was shot while she was here at a playground after school,” Gibson said during the press conference Monday evening. “We just recognized Mother’s Day yesterday, and now this mother has lost her child. This is a parent that will never be the same again.”<\/p>\n

Tisch said shooting victims under the age of 18 went up 200% in the Bronx in 2024 compared to 2018.<\/p>\n

“These are babies killing babies and it has to stop,” Tisch said.<\/p>\n

Mayor Eric Adams, who was also at the scene of the incident on Monday speaking to reporters and concerned parents, described the loss as an “unimaginable tragedy” on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I don’t even know what to say when a shooting like this occurs,” Adams said on X. “Us parents must continue to do everything in our power to make sure our kids cannot access guns.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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