官员称，在纽约市一所学校大楼附近，一群青少年发生斗殴，一名16岁的无辜旁观者被一名14岁的少年开枪打死。
“我们的城市今晚又遭受了一场无谓的悲剧，”NYPD警察局长杰西卡·蒂施在新闻发布会上说。
周一下午5点05分左右，警方接到了一名女性的911报警电话，她在布朗克斯区的布朗克斯拉丁学校附近被枪杀。
NYPD在一份声明中说，官员们到达现场后，发现一名16岁的受害者，后来被确认为Evette Jeffrey，“头部中枪，无意识，无反应”。
Tisch说，Jeffrey被送往林肯医院，后来被宣布死亡。
“她现在应该在家和家人一起吃晚饭，但我们却在谈论另一个枪支暴力的儿童受害者，”Tisch说。
官员说，从学校恢复的视频显示，一群孩子离开校园，进入大楼旁边的人行道，这时发生了一场打斗。
警方说，一名身穿白色t恤和短裤的14岁男子被另一名男子打了一拳，随后该男子继续殴打人群中的其他几个人。
官员们说，有人给了这个14岁的男孩一把手枪，然后他跑向袭击他的男孩。官员们说，这名少年随后向人群开了三枪。
警方说，在视频中，可以看到杰弗里骑着滑板车从校园走向人行道。官员们说，她“没有参与打斗”，而是走向人群边缘的另一名男性，“试图将她拉到砖墙后面作为掩护”。
警方说，尽管这只雄性努力保护她，杰弗里还是被击中头部，并立即倒在地上。
官员说，杰弗里本月刚满16岁，是附近莫里斯高中的学生。她的祖母告诉纽约ABC电台WABC她将“永远不会原谅”枪手嫌疑人或任何与她孙女之死有关的人。
据WABC称，这名14岁的枪手于周二被警方拘留。
“你可以说一百万次对不起，我永远不会原谅你，你们任何人，”祖母说。
布朗克斯区区长凡妮莎·吉布森说杰弗里的母亲“绝对伤心欲绝”
吉布森在周一晚上的新闻发布会上说:“她接到了最糟糕的电话，她的孩子在她放学后在操场上被枪杀了。”“我们昨天刚认了母亲节，现在这位母亲又失去了孩子。这是一个再也不会像以前一样的父母了。”
Tisch表示，与2018年相比，2024年布朗克斯区18岁以下的枪击受害者增加了200%。
“这些是婴儿杀害婴儿，必须停止，”Tisch说。
市长埃里克·亚当斯(Eric Adams)周一也在事故现场，他对记者和忧心忡忡的家长表示，这一损失是“难以想象的悲剧”在X上.
“当这样的枪击事件发生时，我甚至不知道该说些什么，”亚当斯在x上说。“我们的父母必须继续尽我们所能，确保我们的孩子无法获得枪支。”
16-year-old innocent bystander shot and killed near NYC school
A 16-year-old innocent bystander was shot and killed by a 14-year-old after a fight broke out between a group of teenagers near a school building in New York City, officials said.
"Our city has suffered another senseless tragedy tonight," NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said during a press conference.
At approximately 5:05 p.m. on Monday, police responded to 911 calls of a female who was shot near the Bronx Latin School in the Bronx.
Once officials arrived on the scene, they found a 16-year-old victim, later identified as Evette Jeffrey, to be "unconscious and unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head," the NYPD said in a statement.
Jeffrey was transported to Lincoln Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead, Tisch said.
"She should be home right now eating dinner with her family, but instead we are talking about another child victim of gun violence," Tisch said.
Video recovered from the school showed a group of children leaving the schoolyard and entering a walkway alongside the building, when a fight broke out, officials said.
A 14-year-old male wearing a white T-shirt and shorts was punched in the face by another male, who then proceeded to punch several other people in the crowd, police said.
Someone handed a pistol to the 14-year-old, who then proceeded to run up to the male who attacked him, officials said. The teen then fired three rounds of gunfire into the crowd, officials said.
In the video footage, Jeffrey is seen riding from the schoolyard toward the walkway on a scooter, police said. She "does not engage in the fight," but walks over to another male at the edge of the group who "attempts to pull her behind a brick wall for cover," officials said.
Despite the male's efforts in shielding her, Jeffrey was shot in the head and immediately fell to the ground, police said.
Jeffrey, who had just turned 16 this month, was a student at nearby Morris High School, officials said. Her grandmother told New York ABC stationWABCthat she will "never forgive" the suspected shooter or anyone involved in the death of her granddaughter.
The 14-year-old alleged shooter was taken into custody by police on Tuesday, according to WABC.
"You can say you're sorry a million times, I will never forgive you, any of you," the grandmother said.
Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson said Jeffrey's mother is "absolutely inconsolable."
"She got the worst phone call that no parent should ever get, that her child was shot while she was here at a playground after school," Gibson said during the press conference Monday evening. "We just recognized Mother's Day yesterday, and now this mother has lost her child. This is a parent that will never be the same again."
Tisch said shooting victims under the age of 18 went up 200% in the Bronx in 2024 compared to 2018.
"These are babies killing babies and it has to stop," Tisch said.
Mayor Eric Adams, who was also at the scene of the incident on Monday speaking to reporters and concerned parents, described the loss as an "unimaginable tragedy"on X.
"I don't even know what to say when a shooting like this occurs," Adams said on X. "Us parents must continue to do everything in our power to make sure our kids cannot access guns."
