The 11-year-old was caught within the crossfire of a capturing within the Bronx.
NYPD
Two youngsters had been indicted Friday for the broad-daylight homicide of 11-year-old Kyhara Tay — who was struck by a stray bullet allegedly fired by one of many suspects within the Bronx final month, prosecutors stated.
Omar Bojang, 18, was driving a moped on Westchester Avenue on Might 16 when his passenger, Matthew Godwin, 15, allegedly fired a number of pictures supposed for a 13-year-old boy, authorities stated.
The suspects missed their goal, with the stray bullet as a substitute fatally placing Tay.
The pair was arraigned Friday earlier than Bronx Supreme Courtroom Justice Naita Semaj-Williams on prices of second-degree homicide, first-degree manslaughter, tried homicide and tried assault within the first diploma. Godwin was additionally charged with two counts of second-degree legal possession of a weapon.
Each are being remanded with out bail and are due again in courtroom on Aug. 17.
Bronx District Legal professional Darcel Clark known as the case “a disaster of our younger folks.”
“These ages make you weep. As I maintain saying, we're dropping a era within the Bronx and we should act now to avoid wasting our younger folks,” Clark stated in a press release.
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