The family of a grandmother who was gunned down by a stray bullet in the Bronx last week cursed the name of the suspected gunman as he was led away in cuffs to face justice on Monday night.
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The family of a grandmother who was gunned down by a stray bullet in the Bronx last week cursed the name of the suspected gunman as he was led away in cuffs to face justice on Monday night.
The family of 71-year-old Enriqueta Rivera convened outside of the 40th Precinct on Sept. 18., staring up at the station house with photographs of Rivera in their trembling hands and tears running down their faces. Harbingers of sorrow, the gathering made up of daughters, grandchildren, and friends of the senior, who was shot while walking home on Thursday, looked to face the man who allegedly stole her from them.
“There is a God and whatever you do on this earth you will pay for,” Neliza Abad—one of Rivera’s three daughters—said, referring to the accused killer behind bars in the precinct. “Justice will be served for my mother. Everyone will know her name, she will not be an unknown.”
Joshua Evans, 21, of the Bronx was arrested early Monday morning after being tracked down to a home in Mount Vernon by the U.S Marshals and the NYPD Regional Fugitive Apprehension Team, sources familiar with the investigation said.
Evans is accused of killing Rivera with a bullet to the back and wounding a 34-year-old woman in the arm after unleashing a bullet storm outside of 512 138 Street on Sept. 14, police said. Both women were rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where Rivera died of her injuries.
Video footage obtained by amNewYork Metro from a nearby restaurant shows the senior suddenly falling to the sidewalk before the gunman can be seen fleeing the scene on foot.
Sources with knowledge of the incident report that the shooting stemmed from a gang dispute, leaving Rivera to be collateral damage in a deadly feud.
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