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New York|A Schoolyard Fight, a Burst of Gunfire and a Teen Charged With Murder
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/nyregion/evette-jeffrey-murder-bronx-shooting.html
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A boy in the Bronx fired three shots into a crowd, most likely aiming at another boy who had punched him, the police said. One bullet struck Evette Jeffrey, 16, in the head, killing her.
May 13, 2025, 7:53 p.m. ET
The fight that ended the life of Evette Jeffrey began like so many others.
“It was a fistfight,” said Joseph Kenny, the Police Department’s chief of detectives. “An old-school, schoolyard fistfight.”
He was describing the back story to the stray gunshot that killed Evette, 16, near a Bronx school building on Monday — a shooting that recalled the fights between rival gangs in the 1980s and ’90s that left teenagers in jail or dead.
After school let out on Monday, a 14-year-old boy got into a fight outside the building in the Morrisania neighborhood, Chief Kenny said at a news conference on Tuesday. The fight followed another one earlier in the day. The boy walked away the apparent victor, the chief said.
But then another boy ran up and punched him. Someone handed the 14-year-old a gun, and he fired three shots into a crowd, with the boy who had just punched him the likely target, Chief Kenny said. The shooter fled.
The 14-year-old boy was arrested on Tuesday as he tried to enter a taxi near where the shooting happened, the police said. He was charged with murder, the police said, as well as manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon. The police have not released his name.
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