Teenager fatally shot in case of mistaken identity in the Bronx

Monday, October 17, 2016
MOTT HAVEN, Bronx (WABC) -- Friends, family and a community in mourning are remembering the life of a young man who was killed in a shooting in the Bronx.

Police believe he was not the intended target.
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Joseph Jimenez, 19, was shot a block from his home in what police call a case of mistaken identity.

Police say he was walking home from his long-time girlfriend's home on Saturday night at about 11:30 when he was shot in the head on the corner of Walton Avenue and Rockwood Street in the Mott Haven section. He was wearing headphones at the time.
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He was pronounced dead at the hospital.

"Why, why, why! My son didn't do nothing to no one!" said Mindy Jimnes, the victim's mother.

There is a growing memorial outside the building where Jimenez lived with his brother and sister on Hawkstone Street.



"May God forgive why you did it. My son was a saint," Mindy said.

Jimenez was a sophomore at Hostos Community College in the Bronx, and a high school basketball star known to his friends and his coach as J.J.

"He was just full of life, always with a smile," a friend of the victim said.

Another man, a 22-year-old, was also shot and walked into the emergency room at Bronx Lebanon Hospital. He is in stable condition.

Police have no suspects.
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