Boy, 14, charged with murder after Bronx teen killed in suspected gang crossfire

A -year-old boy was arrested in the fatal shooting of a -year-old girl in the Bronx Officers responded to a review of a female shot near Home Street and Tinton Avenue in the Bronx around p m Monday according to a police spokesperson The victim Evette Jeffrey was located unconscious and unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head She was later pronounced dead TIMES SQUARE FOOD CART VENDOR SHOT AFTER DISPUTE WITH GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLEJeffrey was visiting her boyfriend at a school near the site of the shooting according to FOX New York which police identified as Bronx Latin Intermediate School No A fight reportedly broke out nearby and a boy who was punched during the schoolyard altercation was reportedly handed a mm pistol which he then fired three times One of the rounds hit Jeffrey who was not the intended target of the alleged perpetrator She was an innocent bystander who was purely trying to take cover behind the brick wall and was struck in the head by one of the rounds New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny noted at a press conference The circumstance is held to be gang-related ALLEGED TEEN TREN DE ARAGUA GANG MEMBERS ATTACK NYPD OFFICERS POLICEThe suspect was arrested Tuesday morning as he tried to enter a taxi and initially attempted to flee according to Kenny The teen was reportedly arrested without further circumstance The teen was charged with two counts each of second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and one count each of first-degree manslaughter and second-degree attempted murder police validated to Fox News Digital Police are also searching for the -year-old who allegedly provided the gun to the suspect according to FOX