{"id":330162,"date":"2026-08-26T13:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330162\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:56:09","slug":"teen-wanted-for-shooting-15-year-old-to-death-in-bronx-apartment-turns-himself-in-to-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330162\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen wanted for shooting 15-year-old to death in Bronx apartment turns himself in to police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"887\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787752569_980_920A620B-EE55-47AA-91BB-834378AAF7FF.jpeg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Elaine Rogers, Billingslea's grandmother and legal guardian with whom he lived in the Bronx, spoke with amNewYork through tears, urging the teens who were inside the apartment to come forward.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Teen wanted for shooting 15-year-old to death in Bronx apartment turns himself in to police 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Elaine Rogers, Riley Billingslea\u2019s grandmother and legal guardian with whom he lived in the Bronx, spoke with amNewYork through tears, urging the teens who were inside the apartment to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Moses<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old boy wanted for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/last-words-teen-gunman-fatally-shot-15-year-old-boy-bronx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatally shooting another teen inside a Bronx apartment earlier this month<\/a> turned himself in to police Tuesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/bronx-grandmother-pleads-slain-teen-shooting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">same day the victim\u2019s family held an emotional funeral service for the victim.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, Kalvin Veloz surrendered at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd50pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">50th Precinct<\/a> stationhouse on Tuesday morning after a 13-day manhunt. The teen had been on the run since Aug. 12 and finally turned himself over around 10:20 a.m. that morning. He had been the primary suspect in the murder of 15-year-old Riley Billingslea.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, that afternoon, Billingslea\u2019s family held a funeral service for the boy during which his grief-stricken grandma pleaded for her grandson\u2019s friends to give police more information about the shooter, unaware that he had already given himself up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s going to meet friends wherever he goes, and those friends unfortunately led him to that apartment,\u201d Elaine Rogers said. \u201cI want his friends to speak up. If you are truly a friend, then it\u2019s not enough to just come tell me. I need you to tell someone who\u2019s going to be able to do something about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cops say the fatal shooting took place in a fifth-floor apartment at 2825 Claflin Ave. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, who described Veloz as having a reputation of being a bully, said he pulled a handgun from his backpack and opened fire as at least three boys hung out together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe produces a firearm from his backpack, inserts a magazine, racks the gun back, and makes a statement: \u2018I\u2019m going to throw some pain.\u2019 And at that point, he shoots Riley in the head, killing him instantly,\u201d Chief Kenny said.<\/p>\n<p>A 13-year-old boy was also injured when a bullet struck a wall and ricocheted into his chest.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Veloz has been hit with a slew of charges, including murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elaine Rogers, Riley Billingslea\u2019s grandmother and legal guardian with whom he lived in the Bronx, spoke with amNewYork&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,128,303,9,24,63,103,104,1096,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-330162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-arrest","tag-bronx","tag-crime","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-shooting","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\/330162","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=330162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}