4 charged in deadly basketball tournament shooting in the Bronx
BAYCHESTER, the Bronx (WABC) -- Four suspects, including two teenagers, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and gang assault after they allegedly opened fire on a crowd gathered over the weekend at a New York City park for a basketball tournament, killing one man and injuring four other victims.
The four suspects arrested were identified as 20-year-old Daeven Reyes and 25-year-old Robert Royal, both of the Bronx; the names of the two other suspects, a 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old, were not released because they are minors.
The suspects were each charged with murder, four counts of attempted murder, gang assault and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.
Police believe the shooting was gang-related with nearly 60 shots fired at Haffen Park off Gunther Avenue in Baychester.
Jaceil Banks, 32, was killed after being struck in the chest.
The youngest of the five victims, a 17-year-old girl, Anthonaya Campbell, remains in critical condition.
"She must have got up and tried to run, my grandson was there and he ran up and thought that she was dead and my other daughter went down there and panicked and somebody else started to do CPR," said Campbell's mother, Jennifer Talbot.
Talbot says her daughter dreamed of becoming a speech pathologist to help others express themselves. Now, Campbell can't speak after being shot in the back of her head. The bullet is now lodged behind her eye.
Talbot said her daughter was breathing with the help of a life-support machine.
"It's heartbreaking. You don't give birth to your children to see them set up to a life-support unit," Talbot said.
Three other victims wounded in the park shooting showed up at hospitals in private vehicles, including a 30-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman, who were both shot in the back and were listed in stable condition, police said on Sunday. A 42-year-old man was also shot in the arm during the incident and was taken by private vehicle to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, where he was in stable condition on Sunday.
Police are asking anyone who may have witnessed the shooting to contact detectives.
Saturday's shooting marked the second consecutive weekend that the NYPD responded to a mass-casualty shooting involving gang members.
Three men were killed and 11 people were wounded during an Aug. 17 incident in which multiple shooters opened fire inside the Taste of the City Lounge, a bar and restaurant in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood. Police said two of the three people killed were involved in the shooting and that one man who was fatally shot was an uninvolved bystander.
The shootings occurred as the most recent NYPD crime statistics show homicides citywide are down by 19.6% so far this year compared to the same year-to-date period in 2024. The data also show that the number of shooting victims are down 19.4% this year compared to 2024, and the number of shooting incidents has fallen by nearly 20% over the same period compared to last year.
(ABC News contributed to this report.)
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