Woman's wretched words to her teen granddaughter's killer after she was shot dead outside of school

A shattered grandma has issued a pugnacious connection to a 14-year-old lad who gunned down her guiltless teenage granddaughter portion she was riding a scooter.

Evette Jeffrey, 16, was changeable successful the caput erstwhile she got caught successful the crosshairs of pack unit extracurricular Bronx Latin School successful New York connected Monday. 

Her accused slayer is simply a 14-year-old lad who was known to constabulary and reportedly had links to a gang. According to Mayor Eric Adams, the troubled teen had erstwhile adjacent pulled a weapon connected his ain mom.

It's understood the lad had been punched and knocked to the crushed erstwhile an unidentified idiosyncratic slipped him a pistol.

He fired 3 shots, seemingly indiscriminately, into a crowd, fatally shooting Evette, who was innocently nearby.

Evette's grieving grandma spoke to ABC aft the tragedy, placing blasted astatine the feet of the teenager's family. 

'I don't forgive you,' she said successful a connection straight to the boy. 

'I clasp your household responsible. Because they should've been watching you. Whoever handed it to you oregon you had it, I volition ne'er forgive you. I don't care.  

'They tin accidental I'm atrocious a cardinal times, I volition ne'er forgive immoderate of you. Any of you.'

And speaking to the New York Post, she added: 'They took her distant from us. They took her distant from me.'

Evette had dreams of becoming a aesculapian technician and going to college, her household said.

Charges are pending against the teenage boy.

NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said 'from the video we saw of that incident, it appears that our shooter was really the victor of that fight. 

'The altercation past carried retired onto the walkway down the school, wherever different idiosyncratic ran up and punched the shooter. That person, we believe, was the intended target.'

Sources said constabulary judge a feud betwixt warring thoroughfare gangs sparked the tragedy.

According to the publication, the 2 gangs progressive successful the melee which led to the shooting were Forest Over Everything and Kreep On Davidson - which is based astatine the Davidson Houses nationalist lodging analyzable nearby.

It is not wide which pack the alleged shooter was affiliated with.

Mayor Adams issued a heart-wrenching connection connected X connected Monday night, lamenting 'babies sidesplitting babies.'

'Tonight, a 14-year-old fishy changeable and killed a 16-year-old girl. Babies sidesplitting babies. It's an unimaginable tragedy, and I americium praying for the victim's family.

'I don't adjacent cognize what to accidental erstwhile a shooting similar this occurs. Us parents indispensable proceed to bash everything successful our powerfulness to marque definite our kids cannot entree guns.

'The miss was not the intended target... This young antheral who did the shooting, the idiosyncratic of interest, threatened his parent with a gun. She was acrophobic of him.'

Later, helium added: 'It is heartbreaking and maddening that pack unit has erstwhile again chopped abbreviated the lives of 2 young New Yorkers — a beauteous miss with truthful overmuch beingness up of her and a 14-year-old fishy who could person chosen the close path.'

Evette's household person chosen to cremate her truthful they tin transportation a portion of her with them forever. 

'The ma doesn't privation her successful the cemetery. The household doesn't privation it,' her grandma said.