Posted on 02/17/2026 2:28:55 AM PST by RoosterRedux
One teenager has been arrested in connection with what officials described as a "senseless" shooting that broke out in New York City as crowds of children gathered at the bus stop after school dismissal, killing one 16-year-old boy, police said Sunday.
The Wednesday incident occurred in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx amid what officials and witnesses characterized as an escalating wave of violence in the borough, prompting affected family members to criticize Mayor Zohran Mamdani and law enforcement for not doing enough to keep New Yorkers safe.
Authorities identified the slain victim as Christopher Redding, an aspiring football player at John F. Kennedy High School, who sustained a gunshot wound to the back. According to a GoFundMe page, Redding was defending his friends who were being targeted by a group of individuals.
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The grieving father of the slain teen football player added that he was disappointed by the circumstances surrounding the incident and denounced Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s recent statement Thursday expressing gratitude for the NYPD’s handling of crime in the city.
"They’re still out there, and nothing is really being done," Bryan Corley told the New York Post, referring to the suspects who remain at large. "Mayor Mamdani saying that the police is doing a good job. They’re not doing a good job. It’s disgusting."
When asked whether Mamdani’s office had reached out to the teen’s family, the father reportedly said "no" in frustration.
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Rising crime rates are not a bug. They’re a feature, especially when they can be targetted to desired areas.
Mamdani is going to take NYC back to the 70s. But this time, we won’t have good music.
Ask Huminahumina Cortez her opinion!
I guess the social workers didn’t get there on time...
A group of individuals. 👍
So much reporting by omission, or vague code words. Hey, Missy Chu, consider your wording when calling this senseless. Makes plenty of sense when you connect the dots.
Yup. And now that jerk Mamdami has been in long enough his horrid policies are having real world and here deadly consequences that are on him.
Fau news is now pushing the government protect us wagon.
Bad gun kills teen headlines,
being a football player doesnt really mean a bag of beans. 100's of 1000's of kids play football.
Its not a hard thing to get into.
how about he worked at the homeless shelter? He had a part time job to help support his family?
Im not taking anything away from his character, its just tiresome to repeatedly hear people put football players on a pedestal as if they were saints -.
what did this person give back to society? Instead of his dedication to H.S. sports???
how many people saw this murder and are willing to identify the shooters? I doubt very much no one knows who they are.
Drag the parent(s) into court and Question” them
Whenever a tragedy happens in a black area, the word, “senseless,” is thrown around a lot. The journos have that word on speed-dial. Lots of senseless happenstances take place around the black folk
Touting the victim was satirized in the Bonfire of the Vanities. The black youth car jacker who was killed was portrayed as an altar boy, academic scholar on his way to college. Hands up don’t shoot victim Michael Brown and Obama’s son Trayvon were eulogized in the same way. The press has a habit of idolizing the victim.
Simia Vestibulum
You were never very good at sports huh?
Senseless as compared to “senseful”.
The Bronx is an ethnically diverse borough with a population that is predominantly Hispanic (approx. 55%) and Black (approx. 28-29%), according to 2023 estimates. It has the highest concentration of Hispanic communities in New York City, with significant Puerto Rican, Dominican, and other Caribbean, as well as West African, populations.
What are the odds
> Anyone else starting to tire of the “ He was a football player” being equated with goodness?<
The fact that he knows his father and is on an organized team are good things.
EC
This is the problem but the Mamdani administration won't see it or, if they do, won't see it as a problem. Its the problem in every city that has an out of control crime problem. Teenage gangs run the streets with no fear of being arrested. So they fight and they rob residents and disturb the peace. And if anyone says anything to them, the gangs beat them up. But the people Mamdani hires will call it "gun violence" and leave it at that. The gun is the last stage of the problem that starts with allowing teen gangs to run wild.
Rising crime in the BRONX. LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL please this has been going on for 60 years.
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