Police are searching for a 12-year-old accomplice to the 14-year-old gangbanger accused of fatally shooting a promising teen girl at a Bronx playground.
The younger thug allegedly handed the gun to the baby-faced accused shooter during the fatal encounter shortly after 5 p.m. Monday, with a stray bullet striking 16-year-old Evette Jeffrey in the head as she rode her scooter near a local school, killing her on the spot, police and sources said.
The deadly dispute between rival street gangs – Forest Over Everything and the upstart crew Kreep On Davidson based at the Davidson Houses housing project in Morrisania — stemmed from a scuffle earlier in the day, sources said.
It is not clear which gang the accused killer belonged to.
The gun-toting teen was arrested Tuesday morning by the NYPD and a US Marshals task force while getting into a cab on Rev. James A. Polite Avenue, the sources said.
Evette had been celebrating her one-year anniversary with her boyfriend at a local Chinese buffet when she was caught in the crossfire and killed, her family said.
“I don’t forgive,” the girl’s grieving grandmother said of the teen gunman. “I hold your family responsible because they should be watching you.
“Whoever handed you [the gun] or had it, I will never forgive you.”
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