The Bronx District Attorney’s Office is gearing up to host its fourth annual March to End Gun Violence this weekend.
According to the DA’s office, the march on Saturday in Longwood will be supplemented by a resource fair meant to provide Bronx residents with information regarding employment, education, re-entry from incarceration, health care and other resources, as well as “bridge the gap between victims of gun violence and our office.”
According to information provided by the NYPD, there have been at least 23 reported homicidal shootings this year in the Bronx.
One of them happened at the Police Athletic League (PAL) New South Bronx Center in Longwood, the site of Saturday’s March to End Gun Violence.
On Jan. 19, officers from the 41st Precinct responded to the PAL center after a person in a parked gray Jeep Renegade got out of the car and opened fire on a group of people leaving the facility. The shooting killed 15-year-old Josue Lopez-Ortega, and sent another 16-year-old boy — whose identity was withheld by the NYPD — to the hospital.
The NYPD confirmed officers still haven’t arrested a subject for the shooting, and that the investigation is ongoing.
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Lopez-Ortega is just one of the kids who have been impacted by gun violence in the Bronx over the past year.
The death of University Prep Charter High School student Angellyh Yambo — who was shot and killed in April 2022 by a stray bullet just a few blocks away from her school in the South Bronx — rocked the borough. Her killing inspired marches, calls to action and in April Yambo’s family memorialized her with a street co-naming ceremony in Kingsbridge.
A 14-year-old boy was arrested and charged with attempted murder, assault, criminal use of a firearm and reckless endangerment for opening fire aboard a Bx5 bus in February. Another boy, 17, was shot…
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