Boy, 13, arrested in shooting death of 16-year-old girl in the Bronx: NYPD

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MORRISANIA, the Bronx (PIX11) --- A 13-year-old boy was arrested Monday after an innocent teen was killed during a gang-related shooting in the Bronx last week, police said.

The boy is believed to have handed the suspected shooter,14, the gun used in the fatal shooting of Evette Jeffrey, 16, near a playground in Morrisania on May 12, according to sources and the NYPD.

The 13-year-old is facing a slew of charges, including murder, manslaughter, criminal possession of a weapon, and reckless endangerment, authorities said.

Jeffrey was fatally shot in the head by I.S. 158 near Home Street and Tinton Avenue at around 5:05 p.m. during a fracas between two groups of youths, according to the NYPD.

“It’s not fair,” the girl's grandmother said. “She didn’t bother nobody. She didn’t go outside looking for fights or nothing like that.”

The shooting followed an earlier fight in the schoolyard and then carried out onto a walkway behind the school, when the shooter fired three rounds into a crowd of teenagers, Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said.

Jeffrey was not involved in the fight, but was an innocent bystander, who was trying to take cover behind a brick wall when she was shot, police said. She was rushed to an area hospital but could not be saved.

The 14-year-old alleged gunman was apprehended at the scene after trying to get away in a taxi, police said. He was charged with murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon, cops said.

Authorities said the fight was between members of the KOD, Kreep on Davidson) and their rival is FOE, Forest Over Everything.