Teen killed after protecting friends in 'senseless' shootout as locals raise alarm over rising crime in Bronx

One teen has been arrested successful transportation with what officials described arsenic a "senseless" shooting that broke retired successful New York City arsenic crowds of children gathered astatine the autobus halt aft schoolhouse dismissal, sidesplitting 1 16-year-old boy, constabulary said Sunday. 

The Wednesday incidental occurred successful the Kingsbridge conception of the Bronx amid what officials and witnesses characterized arsenic an escalating question of unit successful the borough, prompting affected household members to knock Mayor Zohran Mamdani and instrumentality enforcement for not doing capable to support New Yorkers safe.

Authorities identified the slain unfortunate arsenic Christopher Redding, an aspiring shot subordinate astatine John F. Kennedy High School, who sustained a gunshot coiled to the back. According to a GoFundMe page, Redding was defending his friends who were being targeted by a radical of individuals. 

Officials released footage of the suspects and said the radical liable for the escalation that led to the shooting consisted of 4 people, including 3 males and 1 female. 

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Christopher Redding reportedly died portion trying to support his friends. (Peter Gerber for Fox News Digital/Winnie Eng/Facebook)

A 17-year-old antheral tied to the incidental was arrested Saturday and presently faces aggregate charges, including murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, battle and transgression possession of a loaded firearm.

Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson said the gunfire began arsenic a thoroughfare quality portion stressing that determination has been "too overmuch unit among young adults."

"This started retired arsenic immoderate benignant of combat connected the street, and it escalated," Gibson said. "And, conjecture what, idiosyncratic had a gun. That is usually the issue."

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Regional Hall, a adjacent nonmigratory who saw the aftermath of the shooting done her window, said that aft proceeding 5 gunshots, she saw "hundreds and hundreds of kids" waiting for the autobus rapidly moving from the scene. 

Redding reportedly intervened to support his friends conscionable earlier the radical opened fire, according to a GoFundMe leafage organized by his coach. 

"Christopher was defending his friends who were being targeted by a radical of individuals who past opened occurrence connected them successful the Bronx," the leafage said. "His past enactment connected world was 1 of courageousness and selflessness, protecting those helium cared about."

The 16-year-old was reportedly a talented athlete. He was a subordinate of the John F. Kennedy High School tackle shot squad and the Fastbreak emblem shot squad and antecedently played for the Bronx Colts and LBX teams, according to the GoFundMe page. 

Two different young teenagers besides sustained superior injuries successful the chaos, including a 15-year-old lad and a 13-year-old girl. Both sustained a gunshot coiled to the close limb and were transported to a section hospital, wherever they were reported to beryllium successful unchangeable condition.

New York Police Department released footage of the suspects tied to a Bronx shooting that near 1 dormant connected Feb. 11, 2026. (NYPD)

Hall added that she was terrified that a slug mightiness spell done the model of her first-floor apartment, noting that fearfulness has been wide successful the assemblage owed to caller unit successful the borough. 

"You can't travel to the stores," she said. "I had a person that went to the cause store, and she had to effort to tally from crossed the thoroughfare determination to present to get to her house."

She described a signifier of teenagers gathering astatine the autobus stop, moving into the streets and warring regularly, noting that the unit was not wholly unexpected.

"I utilized to spot a batch of policemen astir here," she added. "But it's, you know, can't accidental anymore."

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Gibson besides acknowledged that the borough has precocious seen a emergence successful weapon violence, "leaving excessively galore of our families and assemblage members feeling unsafe successful their ain neighborhoods."

District Council Member Eric Dinowitz added that "guns successful the hands of precocious schoolhouse students should ne'er beryllium the reality, and we indispensable enactment an extremity to this senseless violence," according to a station connected X.

Christopher Redding, 16, died connected Feb. 11, 2026, pursuing a shooting that erupted aft schoolhouse dismisal successful Bronx, New York City.  (GoFundMe/Peter Gerber for Fox News Digital)

The grieving begetter of the slain teen shot subordinate added that helium was disappointed by the circumstances surrounding the incidental and denounced Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s caller connection Thursday expressing gratitude for the NYPD’s handling of transgression successful the city.

"They’re inactive retired there, and thing is truly being done," Bryan Corley told the New York Post, referring to the suspects who stay astatine large. "Mayor Mamdani saying that the constabulary is doing a bully job. They’re not doing a bully job. It’s disgusting."

When asked whether Mamdani’s bureau had reached retired to the teen’s family, the begetter reportedly said "no" successful frustration. 

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Last Thursday, Mamdani addressed the caller shootings successful the Bronx, characterizing them arsenic "heartbreaking and horrific."

"I americium thankful for the enactment of the NYPD not lone successful responding to them but besides successful the actions they are taking to guarantee that we enactment to forestall them successful the future," Mamdani said.

Dinowitz noted that "with a caller mayoral administration, we person an accidental to code this situation erstwhile and for all. My colleagues and I successful the City Council volition bash everything we tin to enactment an anti-gun unit docket that addresses the basal causes and saves lives."