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    A Schoolyard Fight, a Burst of Gunfire and a Teen Charged With Murder

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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.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.Mayor Eric Adams spoke at the scene of the shooting on Monday.Dakota Santiago for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More

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      Girl, 16, Is Fatally Shot Near a Bronx School Building, Police Say

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      Evette Jeffrey was the unintended victim of a fight among teenagers leaving a schoolyard, the police commissioner said. A 14-year-old boy was being sought in the killing.A 16-year-old girl was fatally shot near a South Bronx school building Monday afternoon, and a 14-year-old boy was being sought in her killing, officials said.The girl was an unintended victim of a shooting that occurred after a fight broke out among children who were leaving the building’s schoolyard around 5 p.m., Jessica Tisch, the police commissioner, said at a news conference Monday evening.“Our city has suffered another senseless tragedy tonight,” Commissioner Tisch said.Mayor Eric Adams, speaking at the news conference, said, “We feel the loss.”Officers responding to 9-1-1 calls and notifications from a gunfire-detection system arrived at Home Street and Tinton Avenue in the Morrisania neighborhood to find the girl, Evette Jeffrey, with a gunshot wound to the head, officials said. She was taken to Lincoln Hospital in critical condition and later pronounced dead, the police said.The shooting occurred near a building that houses three schools: the Dr. Richard Izquierdo Health and Science Charter School, Bronx Latin and the Bronx Career and College Preparatory High School.Commissioner Tisch said that Evette attended a different high school nearby and, citing video captured by security cameras at the school building, gave the following account of the events leading up to the shooting:A group of children left the schoolyard and entered a walkway alongside the building when a fight broke out among some of them. Amid the fighting, one boy punched another in the face, knocking him to the ground, and then began to punch several other children.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe. More