A 16-year-old Latina teenager was shot to death this Friday when she was trapped on her way home from school with some friends in the crossfire of a gunfight on a street corner in the Bronx in New York City, police said. this Saturday, which added that a 17-year-old boy was arrested for this incident.
The police have not officially revealed the name of the girl, but her family told the press that it was Angellyh Yambo.
Her aunts told the New York Post that she was an exemplary student and "a beautiful soul."
She was a girl who went to school and came straight home”, said one of them, Margarita Yambo, “she was one of the sweetest girls you have ever met”.
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Police say they are still investigating what happened, but initially suspect the shooting broke out around 2 p.m. after two people exchanged glances and gestures at an intersection a block from University Prep Charter High School. .
The teenagers were passing just then on the sidewalk and were caught in the middle of the bullets.
"We think they were coming from school, they were on their way home," Deputy Police Chief Timothy McCormack told reporters at a brief news conference.
Two of the girl's friends, aged 16 and 17, were injured
but are expected to survive their injuries, according to authorities.
Scene of the shooting in which the 16-year-old girl died on April 9. NBC News
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The teen's parents are "devastated," said Margarita Yambo, 38, whose brother is Angellyh's father.
Another aunt, Elvia Henriquez, 36, described the girl as "loving".
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The local police commissioner, Keechant Sewell, referred to the young woman as "a young woman with a bright future." The mayor, Eric Adams, has said that fighting crime is a priority of his government since taking office. charged on January 1.
Homicides have dropped slightly in the city since last year, but gun violence overall remains at levels not seen in a decade.
“Today we lost a 16-year-old baby in the Bronx.
We pray for this girl, for her family and for the other two victims in the hospital.
It's a tragedy.
It is unacceptable.
This is why we cannot abandon our streets to gun violence," Adams tweeted.
Between 2012 and 2019, shootings fell to an all-time low, but in the past two years of the pandemic, some of that progress has been lost with rising violence.
But the city is still far from reaching the levels of violence seen in the 1990s.
