Angellyh Yambo was strolling house from College Prep Constitution Excessive Faculty when she was struck within the again by the stray bullet.
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A whole lot of mourners packed a Bronx funeral Tuesday to bid farewell to 16-year-old Angellyh Yambo, the native excessive schooler senselessly killed by a stray bullet close to her Excessive Faculty final week.
“Heaven has gained one other angel,” household buddy Hector Torres stated exterior the wake at Williams Funeral Residence in Kingsbridge. “She was stuffed with power. Younger, stunning — what youngsters are alleged to be.
“It hurts,” added Torres, who lives within the constructing the place Yambo’s father has been the doorman for years. “I come house and listen to this. I’m a father or mother myself. It’s not alleged to be the mother and father burying the kid. It’s alleged to be the opposite means round.”
The slain teen lay in a white casket adorned with gentle pink roses, carrying her pink “Candy 16” costume with sparkles and a tiara in her hair.
“Relaxation in Peace Angellyh,” phrases written on the picture learn. “We Love You.”
“Ay dios mio!” the lady’s grandmother wailed at one level, with others consoling her.
“It’s such a tragic state of affairs,” stated a household buddy who requested to not be recognized. “She was so younger, a phenomenal lady. A ravishing younger woman. She was very good, she was an honors pupil. It’s simply unhappy.”
Yambo’s father “just isn't doing good” after dropping his lady, the buddy stated.
“He’s destroyed,” she stated. “It’s unhappy. What are you able to say about it?”
Yambo was strolling house from College Prep Constitution Excessive Faculty round 1:45 p.m. Friday when she was struck within the again by a stray bullet and fell mortally wounded on East 156th Road a block from the teenager’s College Prep Constitution Excessive Faculty.
Police stated Jeremiah Ryan, 17, fired the photographs from a 9 mm Polymer 80 “ghost gun” after getting right into a beef with a bunch of suspected gang members.
Two different youngsters, together with Isaiah Duncan, 17, had been hit and wounded.
Ryan was arrested at his close by house after police stated they noticed him throwing the gun out of his window inside a rubbish bag. He was arraigned Saturday on homicide, tried homicide and weapons costs and is being held in jail with out bail.
Yambo’s household requested for privateness throughout the wake.
The household will collect for a service on the funeral house Wednesday, adopted by burial at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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