Cops arrested a 17-year-old girl for the brutal slaying of a 16-year-old girl at a Bronx deli that’s believed to have stemmed from an ongoing bullying dispute, the Daily News learned Wednesday.
The 17-year-old was slapped with charges of murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon for the gruesome Tuesday afternoon slaying of Aliyah Williams, who was knifed throughout her head and body inside Deli Grocery around 3:56 p.m. Tuesday near Mickle Ave. and Boston Road. in Williamsbridge, police said.
According to police sources, the attack was believed to have been sparked by an “ongoing beef.” One of the girls followed the other into the store and a dispute unfolded. The victim then threw water at the attacker, enraging her, culminating in the horrific stabbing, the sources said.
The 17-year-old was picked up three hours after the incident. Her arraignment at Bronx Criminal Court was pending Wednesday. Police are not releasing her name because she is a minor under age 18.
An 18-year-old pre-med student who was working at Upcake Supplies And Treat Shop right by the crime scene called 911 when the incident happened and rushed over to aid Aliyah, helped by a co-worker.
“And then I look at the window, see the girl bleeding,” said the teen, who wanted to be unnamed. “When I saw the blood, I knew she got hit [in] one of her arteries.”
The youth said he noticed another man who was putting pressure around the teen’s neck.
“Then she was gargling a lot of blood out,” he recalled. “So I couldn’t hear her to make a word. But one of my co-workers told me that they heard her saying, ‘Call the ambulance,’ out loud, and it’s because I think her adrenaline was rushing in,” he said. “Then when I get there, she’s trying to move. She’s, like, ‘I need help. I need help.’ She’s like gargling all that stuff. I’m like, ‘O.K., sweetie, I’m here. No worries…”
In the wake of the vicious attack, a huge pool of blood was left trailing outside the store.
“Pressure was being put and then I decided to check what other place she’s losing blood,” the pre-med student said. “She was losing a lot of blood through her eye, her ear, then two cuts in her arm. And then when the EMT came in later, that’s when we saw there was a stabbing in the chest,” the man said, though adding the chest wound didn’t look that deep.
EMS rushed the teen to Jacobi Medical Center, where she died of her injuries.
Aliyah lived just a few blocks away from where she was killed, cops said.
It wasn’t immediately clear which of the two girls — the victim or the attacker — was being bullied.
The slain girl’s family was left stunned and grieving.
“She wasn’t a bad kid. She was a peaceful person, she gave of her heart,” the victim’s grandmother, Rose Anderson, said at the crime scene Tuesday evening. “May her soul rest in peace. I’m sorry she had to go this way. I hope they find her killer.”
“She texted me today — she asked me for $10 for food,” she said. “That was the last time I heard from her.”
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
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