a social media post<\/a> on Sunday, Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch wrote, \u201cJacob was an innocent bystander on his bike when he was taken from his family yesterday in an act of senseless gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cNo arrest can ever ease the pain of this unimaginable loss, but the N.Y.P.D. will continue to do everything in our power to seek justice for Jacob,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
A cashier at the bodega, Mani Soto, said Jacob bought a ball around 4:45 p.m. The boy thanked him and left.<\/p>\n
Moments later, Mr. Soto said he heard the sound of gunshots.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kid came running in, his arm was bloody,\u201d said Mr. Soto, 31. He heard Jacob cry out, \u201c\u2018They hit me, they hit me!\u2019\u201d Then the boy dropped to the floor.<\/p>\n
Officers arrived just before 5 p.m. and found Jacob, who was shot in the left shoulder, the police said. Emergency medical workers took him to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, outside the bodega, pink rose petals were scattered on the sidewalk near half a dozen candles.<\/p>\n
Two blocks away, at his apartment building on Marcy Place, Simon gazed at the flickering candles featuring the Virgin of Guadalupe placed on top of a wooden crate steps from where the boys had swung a bat the day before.<\/p>\n
About 15 other friends and family members also gathered around the makeshift memorial. Among them were Jacob\u2019s aunt and his 7-year-old sister, Luna, who drew a heart on the crate and wrote \u201cyou I luv.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the foot of the memorial, mourners had placed a baseball, a football, a Capri-Sun drink and Jacob\u2019s green Fuggler, a popular plush toy. A framed photograph of Jacob stood at the center with the words \u201cIn Loving Memory,\u201d above his nickname, Kai.<\/p>\n
Milagro Dejesus, 58, who has lived in the building for nearly five decades, looked on as she comforted another neighbor.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe grew up with everybody else\u2019s kids,\u201d Ms. Dejesus said. \u201cWe all saw him grow up. All the kids here grew up as a family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jacob was the kind of child who would dance the Bachata with his mother and help older tenants with their groceries, Ms. Dejesus said. \u201cNow, we don\u2019t have him,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not going be the same without him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday afternoon in the Bronx, a 12-year-old boy was playing with his friend in the courtyard of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83590,6344,115882,9,11,10,56,104,30355],"class_list":["post-306201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-crime-and-criminals","tag-firearms","tag-mount-eden-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-ny","tag-police","tag-police-department-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306201","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=306201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}