16-year-old indicted for broad daylight murder of teen in Westchester County

Tommy Rivera allegedly shot and killed Julian Oliveros in New Rochelle, New York.
Richard Harbus

A 16-year-old boy was arraigned Wednesday on a homicide cost for the brazen broad daylight taking pictures of one other teenager on a Westchester County avenue, authorities stated.

A grand jury indicted Tommy Rivera for the killing of Julian Oliveros, a 16-year-old who was shot a number of instances in New Rochelle on the afternoon of Jan. 25, county District Legal professional Mimi Rocah introduced in a information launch.

Rivera is dealing with a second-degree homicide cost and two counts of prison weapons possession, Rocah stated.

The alleged shooter had reportedly been arrested the day of the killing only a half a mile from the taking pictures with a handgun in his possession, studies stated on the time.

The teenager used a 9mm semi-automatic gun within the taking pictures, on Washington Avenue and Fourth Avenue, in line with lohud.com.

New Rochelle, a metropolis of 80,000 inside the suburban county, held a group discussion board within the wake of the killing with New Rochelle colleges Superintendent Jonathan Raymond telling residents “we failed them,” in line with the information web site.

“And the group failed them and it’s essential that we acknowledge that,” Raymond instructed attendees on the town-hall model discussion board, lohud stated. “I and many people right here want we may flip again the clock and alter the occasions that had occurred however we can not.”

Each Tommy Rivera and Julian Oliveros had been college students at New Rochelle Excessive Faculty, a neighborhood report says.

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Each teenagers had been college students within the New Rochelle public faculty system however didn’t “commonly attend” lessons, in line with the information web site.

Metropolis Mayor Noam Bramson referred to as the incident a “mindless act of violence” in a press release following the taking pictures.

“Extra broadly, this incident highlights but once more the harmful influence of our nation’s lax gun rules, which flood firearms into the fallacious arms and may remodel any dispute right into a heartbreaking loss,” Bramson, a Democrat, stated.