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An 18-year-old man took a fatal bullet to the head during the violent early Sunday gathering on East 233rd Street near Boston Road in Eastchester in The Bronx, cops said. Google Maps<\/p>\nA teen was fatally shot and three other people struck by gunfire \u2013 including a woman delivering slushies \u2013 when a Bronx car meet-up devolved into chaos over the weekend, authorities and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Werling Mendez, 18, was killed by a bullet to the head during the violence-wracked gathering \u2013 which was part of a social-media-fueled street-showdown trend \u2013 around 5:40 a.m. Sunday on East 233rd Street near Boston Road in Eastchester, cops said.<\/p>\n
More than 60 shell casings were recovered at the scene, according to the sources.<\/p>\n
An 18-year-old man took a fatal bullet to the head during the violent early Sunday gathering on East 233rd Street near Boston Road in Eastchester in The Bronx, cops said. Google Maps<\/p>\n
Mendez, who lived about 3 miles away in Olinville, was rushed to BronxCare Health System, where he succumbed to his injuries, police said Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A 22-year-old man also was shot in the chest, and two women \u2013 ages 20 and 25 \u2013 were each blasted in the foot, according to authorities and sources.<\/p>\n
The older woman was delivering slushies for a local business when she was shot, according to law-enforcement sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Those victims were hospitalized in stable condition, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No arrests had been made by Monday, and no suspect information was available. It also remains unclear who was targeted in the shooting.<\/p>\n
A 37-year-old woman was also robbed of her cell phone and a diamond chain during the fracas, the sources said.<\/p>\n
She was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where she was in stable condition, according to authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The violent gathering happened about four months after reckless drivers turned a Queens street into a danger zone<\/a> in mid-April.<\/p>\n Footage from that car meet-up \u2013 at Eliot Avenue and 69th Street along the Maspeth-Middle Village border \u2013 shows a brazen motorist apparently waving a Palestinian flag as he burned rubber.<\/p>\n The driver narrowly missed those standing nearby while the car made donuts around a ring of fire in the middle of the street.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Two men also jumped on the hood of a marked department vehicle during the mayhem, cracking its windshield and causing other damage, before speeding off in a black Nissan, police said at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n