A second 13-year-old boy has been arrested for the fatal shooting a 28-year-old man killed by a stray bullet outside a Bronx convenience store, cops said Thursday.
The NYPD Warrants Squad grabbed the teen on Wednesday evening after identifying him as a second suspect in the April 23 killing of 28-year-old plumber Daoud “David” Marji and the wounding of a woman on the same street.
Both victims were innocent bystanders hit by stray bullets, cops said.
Another 13-year-old boy surrendered to authorities for the same shooting last week and was ordered held at a juvenile facility without bail.
Both have been charged with murder, manslaughter and weapons possession. Their names have not been released because of their ages.
Bronx prosecutors said the two teens were “acting in concert” when they fired shots on University Ave. near W. Kingsbridge Road just before 5 p.m.
It was not immediately disclosed which one of the teens pulled the trigger.
The newly arrested teen is expected to be arraigned as a juvenile offender in Bronx Criminal Court.
Marji was walking back to Unk Candy and Grocery after grabbing a vape pen from his car when he was struck in the head by the stray slug, surveillance video obtained by the Daily News shows. He collapsed in front of the store, where he used to work.
“He was just walking. Then it looked like he turned around, and that was it. Flash. Gone,” said a convenience store worker who identified himself only as Ray.
A second victim, Tania Tubon, 33, was also struck by a stray bullet in the hip during the same incident, cops said.
Four teens, all wearing ski masks and dark-colored sweatsuits, fled north on University Ave. in a gray Honda Civic, cops said at the time.
The two teens were the third and fourth adolescents under 14 to be arrested in the Bronx for killing a bystander with a stray bullet to the head within six weeks.
Two boys ages 13 and 14 were arrested and held without bail for the stray-gunshot killing of 16-year-old Evette Jeffrey just three and a half miles south of the April 23 shooting scene.
So far this year, 28 kids younger than 18 have been shooting victims citywide, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. At the same time, 17 adolescents have been arrested for pulling triggers.
“These are babies killing babies and it has to stop,” Tisch said.
