A community is rallying and demanding justice after an innocent 11-year-old girl was gunned down in the Bronx, struck by a stray bullet from a gunman on a scooter.
"Please have mercy for her," he said while crying."Please don't forget her. Please. She's a baby. She wasn't grown up yet. She didn't have time to grow up. I'll never get a chance to see her again."
Public Advocate Jumaane Williams was joined by Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson, City Council Member Rafael Salamanca, District Attorney Darcel Clark, and advocates at the"Justice for Kyhara Tay" rally to call for resources, support, and change. "To the community, if you know who these people are, say something," Clark said."This is our job. This is our community. We've got to flip the script in them."
According to the NYPD, there have been 65 shootings, three of them fatal, with victims under 18 so far this year. Salamanca, who represents District 17, which includes Longwood, visited Tay's family Tuesday morning.Grief counselors are at Bronx Academy for Multi-Media, where Tay was a sixth grade student as classmates mourned the loss of a friend.Anyone with information is urged to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA .
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