NYC high school shooting: 17-year-old arrested, charged with murder

A 17-year-old was arrested and charged with homicide, tried homicide and legal possession of a weapon on Saturday after police say he shot and killed a 16-year-old woman and injured two others in New York Metropolis’s Bronx borough on Friday.

In a press convention, the New York Police Division (NYPD) referred to as the shooter an “emboldened particular person.” 

Deputy Police Chief Timothy McCormack mentioned the case was not completed but, and that crime scenes had been nonetheless being processed. 

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Authorities famous Friday that the youngsters had been caught in the course of a dispute as they had been probably strolling house from faculty. 

The deceased sufferer was hit within the torso. One other 16-year-old woman was hit within the leg and a 17-year-old boy was wounded within the buttocks. Each are anticipated to outlive.

The gunfire erupted simply earlier than 1:45 p.m. ET on the nook of East 156th Avenue and St Ann’s Avenue outdoors the South Bronx Academic Campus. 

The campus is house to 2 colleges: Mott Haven Village Prep and College Heights Secondary Faculty.

The Division of Schooling mentioned two of the teenagers went to Mott Haven. The third teen went to College Prep Constitution Excessive Faculty.

One suspect was standing on a nook “gesturing” to somebody on an reverse nook, police defined then. 

After some back-and-forth, the suspect pulled out a firearm and opened fireplace, they mentioned. 

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McCormack advised reporters that six shell casings had been recovered from the scene. 

“We now have two households which can be utterly destroyed proper now. Our sufferer’s household and our shooter’s household. A tough-working girl elevating a toddler who has zero police contact in any respect and he goes from smoking marijuana to killing anyone,” McCormack added.

New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams, who has made preventing crime a precedence since taking workplace on Jan.1, tweeted in regards to the taking pictures on Friday. 

“We misplaced a 16 12 months outdated child within the Bronx at this time. We pray for this younger woman, for her household, and for the opposite two victims within the hospital. It’s a tragedy. It’s unacceptable. It’s why we will’t abandon our streets to gun violence,” he wrote.

Crime within the Huge Apple has soared amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Within the first three months of 2022, crime general jumped 44% in comparison with the identical timeframe in 2022, in response to NYPD information. 

The variety of youngsters injured by gunfire in New York Metropolis has practically doubled this 12 months. As of March 15, 24 youngsters had been shot year-to-date, in comparison with the 13 reported throughout the identical interval in 2021. 

Nonetheless, youngster homicide victims as of the identical timeframe had been down.

Fox Information’ Stephanie Pagones, Louis Casiano and The Related Press contributed to this report.