NEW YORK (AP) – A 16-year-old Bronx boy is dead and another is under arrest for shooting him five times, killing him, police said on Sunday.
Fernando Corea, a football team captain at Alfred E. Smith High School, was shot in front of a group of row houses on Brinsmade Avenue, near where he lived, at about 11 p.m. Friday, just days before his 17th birthday.
Police later arrested Quindel Francis, who lives in the nearby Throgs Neck Houses, and charged him with Corea’s murder and criminal weapons possession.
The shooting was said to be over a longterm feud over Corea’s refusal to join the Bloods gang.
The two youths were also said to have had several skirmishes in the past, which led up to the shooting. Meanwhile, police are continuing an investigation into the case.
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