Community members gathered in Kingsbridge Tuesday night calling for safer streets after a series of shootings left several teenagers dead.<\/p>\n
Neighbors, faith leaders and grieving families came together for a \u201cSafer Streets\u201d rally, saying too many young people in the Bronx are caught up in gun violence \u2014 and in some cases pulling the trigger themselves.<\/p>\n
One of the teens remembered during the rally was Christopher Redding, a 16-year-old high school football player whose family said had a promising future.<\/p>\n
Police say Redding was running along West 238th Street and Broadway during the evening rush on Feb. 12 when gunfire broke out. Two other people were shot during the incident.<\/p>\n
Redding later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n
Investigators say the shooting stemmed from a dispute that began inside a nearby McDonald\u2019s involving a group of teenagers and the victim.<\/p>\n
Police arrested a 17-year-old nearly a week later, charging the teen with murder and other serious offenses, but three other suspects remain on the run. <\/p>\n
Organizers say they hope events like this will bring attention to the violence impacting young people and encourage stronger efforts to prevent future tragedies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community members gathered in Kingsbridge Tuesday night calling for safer streets after a series of shootings left several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,2464,786,12119,9,24,63,7153,1096,11650,3980,12413,4703,12412,33560,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-159730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-deadly-shooting","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-kingsbridge","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-rally","tag-shooting","tag-shooting-victims","tag-shootings","tag-teen","tag-teen-shot","tag-teenager","tag-teenagers","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}