17-year old suspect Jeremiah Ryan is accused of killing 16-year old Angeliyh Yambo who was walking home from school when a bullet not intended for her resulted in her death.
According to a police report, Ryan had a dispute with four individuals and when one of them made a motion to suggest they had a firearm Ryan drew his weapon and fired several shots in their direction resulting in the death of victim Yambo and two other teens who were walking home from school. The two other victims in the shooting injuries are not life-threatening.
Ms. Yambo was killed just blocks from her home in the South Bronx and around the corner from University Heights Secondary School. She was pronounced dead shortly after emergency responders brought her to Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center in the Bronx.
After police interviewed Ryan with his parent, they arrested for 1 count of murder, two counts of attempted murder and criminal possession of a firearm.
“My baby was an innocent bystander. She was walking home from school. She was a good student, a good girl. She wasn’t in the streets. Our kids aren’t even safe walking from a place where they get their education,” according to the mother of Yambo, Yamely Henriquez.
NYPD is now saying that the firearm used in the shooting was a “ghost gun” and was likely manufactured by using a 3D printer which is untraceable and doesn’t contain any serial numbers.
After Ryan’s criminal arraignment in the Bronx, his high-profile attorney Deveraux Cannick who represented singer Robert Sylvester Kelly during last year’s federal trial in New York spoke to the media regarding his client’s case and the victim’s mother response to her daughter’s death: “I’m sure like every other mother in a situation like this, you don’t know what’s going on …. I’m sure she’s grieving like all the other mothers right now.” The attorney also stated that he would concede to the no bond request by the district attorney pending the results of discovery evidence.
This is a developing story.
