Police released a mugshot and identified a suspect in the fatal shooting of Sincere Campbell, a 17-year-old boy who was gunned down outside a deli a block away from his family’s Bronx home in 2024.
Christopher Mejia, 28, is being sought in connection with the shooting outside the Evergreen Deli and Grocery located at Evergreen and Westchester Aves. in Soundview around 3:25 a.m. on Sept. 21, 2024, cops said.
Mejia has four prior arrests, including assaults in 2019 and 2022, and a DUI in 2020, cops said. He was most recently busted for driving with a suspended license in 2024, according to law enforcement.
Surveillance video obtained by Bronx News 12 shows Sincere arguing with several men outside a car at the curb before a hooded gunman drew a weapon and opened fire.
Campbell’s mother thought her son was at home when police called her late that night, a relative told the Daily News.
“From what his mother told me, she didn’t know he’d left the house,” said the 43-year-old cousin of Sincere’s mother, who gave her name as Jessica. ”The last she’d seen him was 12 midnight. She asked if he was hungry. He said no and she fell asleep.”
The teen’s family speculates he later walked to the bodega for a snack.
Jessica said Sincere was a senior at Leadership and Public Service High School in Manhattan, and wanted to be an engineer for the MTA.
“Me and him were talking about him doing an apprenticeship program for the MTA and starting the process of becoming an engineer,” Jessica said. “He was very serious about this since he was in elementary school. He loved Thomas the Tank Engine. He always talked about that throughout his life — he wanted to be a train engineer. He always stuck with that.”
He also loved watching and reading anime, the family said, adding he was a big fan of basketball and soccer, and that his favorite players were Stephen Curry and Lionel Messi.
