A 17-year-old boy was killed and another teen was wounded amid gunfire in the Bronx on Friday, cops said.
A 911 call about an assault led police to find the two teens suffering from gunshot wounds on Macombs Road near Cromwell Ave. in Highbridge around 5:48 p.m.
At least six rounds were fired, witnesses told the Daily News. Police on Saturday were trying to determine if the shooting was gang related, sources said.
“We were working inside. [Then we heard] ‘Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!’” a worker at a Flat Fix shop across the street from the shooting told The News on Saturday. “I heard maybe five or six shots.”
Medics rushed 17-year-old Andrew Mora to St. Barnabas Hospital with a gunshot wound to the left side of his chest. He died at the hospital a short time later.
The other victim, also 17, was shot in his right abdomen and also taken to St. Barnabas. He’s expected to survive.
Police found a firearm on the surviving teen, who’s expected to be charged with weapons possession once he’s fully recovered, a police source with knowledge of the case said.
A witness who lives on the block saw the two youths splayed out on the ground after they were shot.
“There were two guys shooting at people down the block and they ran west,” the man said. “One of the kids was lying in the street by the black car. They picked him up and put him on the stretcher. The other kid was lying on the sidewalk across the street. He was dead.”
Mora lived in Inwood, Manhattan, about 3 miles from where he was fatally shot, police said.
Maria Estevez, 58, usually goes to a food truck on Macombs Road and W. 172nd St. to grab dinner. On Friday night, she said she got a bad feeling and decided to skip the food truck and go to a nearby deli.
The last-second decision may have saved her life, she believes.
“I always stand by the food truck, and before it happened I thought, ‘No, don’t go there. ‘Go to the store,'” she recalled. “I went into the store. Then I heard like three or four shots.”
“It’s got to be stopped with these teenagers,” Estevez said about the violence. “I don’t understand where they’re getting this s–t.”
Detectives were still trying determine what sparked the shooting and were searching the area for surveillance footage that could help them get a better understanding of what happened.
