NYC subway shooting that left teen dead was gang-related: officials
A Monday night shooting at a Bronx subway station that left a 17-year-old boy dead and another teen wounded was part of a simmering neighborhood gang dispute, officials said Tuesday.
“We know that we’re dealing with gang violence and crew violence, where we have blocks and developments that are literally fighting against each other and there are innocent people in the middle of all of that conflict,” Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson said at a press briefing.
“It is still under investigation, but so far we know that in this particular area, we have seen in the past, we have crew violence that’s been happening in parts of Allerton out of the Sun Hill houses, Eastchester Gardens,” Gibson said of Monday’s bloodshed. “I mean, this is nothing new.
“And so we know that this is probably a neighborhood issue.”
The gunshots broke out around 10 p.m. at the subway station at Burke Avenue and White Plains Road, police said.
One teen was hit in the head and later pronounced dead at Jacobi Hospital, according to cops.
The second victim, also 17, was hit in the hip and transported to Jacobi Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
The NYPD had not released a motive for the shooting as of Tuesday afternoon.
But Gibson said it’s believed to be tied to neighborhood gang feuds.
“I guarantee when we do the investigation and we get all of the individuals involved and identify where they live, I assure you they probably live in the same neighborhood, probably the same development in terms of public housing,” Gibson said.
MTA New York City Transit President Richard Davey, who joined Gibson at the briefing outside Bronx Borough Hall, said there is “significant” footage of the shooting that was turned over to police.
The footage has not been made available to the public.
“Burke Avenue, there were 12 cameras at the station, all were working at the time of the incident,” Davey said. “We turned over significant — I would just say significant — footage to the police as part of their investigation. I know as of this morning we turned over significant evidence to them.
“We currently have 10,000 cameras in the subway system, and when you add the buses, it’s over 50,000 cameras,” Davey added.
Police have not made an arrest in the shooting.
The incident comes as major crimes are down in the city transit system this year through Sunday compared to the same time span in 2022, from 578 crime complaints so far this year compared to 621 last year, a drop of nearly 7%, according to NYPD data.
But the last month shows an uptick of more than 25% in complaints involving six major crimes, including a nearly 60% increase in grand larcenies, which jumped 57 over the same month in 2022, compared to 91 so far this year, the statistics show.
Additional reporting by Craig McCarthy and Joe Marino
