A 15-year-old was arrested Friday in connection with the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old girl in New York City’s Bronx neighborhood earlier this week, police said.
Highlights
- Kyhara Tay, 11, was shot in the abdomen with a stray bullet in the Bronx on Monday.
- A 15-year-old was arrested Friday in connection with the shooting, police say.
- The shooting comes as New York City grapples with an uptick of gun violence that has reached even the city’s youngest.
- The alleged shooter faces charges of murder in the second degree, first-degree manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon.
- In January, an 11-month-old girl was hit in the face in a car on a Bronx street while sitting with her mother in a parked car on May 17, when a stray shot hit her in the head.