He described his nephew as a good kid who always showed respect and greeted neighbors up the block. Lopez urged neighborhood thugs to drop their weapons, arguing that people should put up their fists or boxing gloves instead of taking lives.
Local mother Missell Ventura, whose daughter was close friends with Jacob, called him a beautiful boy. She admitted feeling terrified to let her daughter walk to the store or go to school alone because the street violence feels completely out of control.
The Bronx Plagued by Stray Bullets
This heartbreaking death reflects a terrifying pattern of across the borough in recent months. Back in April, an innocent as he sat on a courtyard bench near his Mott Haven home.
Known affectionately as Pops, Edgar Spence was simply enjoying the warm evening air at the Mitchel Houses on Alexander Avenue. Neighbors lit candles in the shape of an E to honor the after being struck in the stomach shortly before 11 p.m.
Violence struck the borough again in May, when a was grazed in the ear outside a store. That shooting happened outside Gourmet Deli and Juice Bar on Southern Boulevard in Longwood during an argument over a bag of weed.
The little girl was rushed to Harlem Hospital after a bullet grazed her ear, while gunfire shattered the store’s glass door. By mid-July, authorities had arrested
Local business leaders and store clerks expressed total panic over the endless street battles leaving innocent residents in danger.
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