By The Diary
27 Sep 2024, 2:12 PM EDT
When Sincere Emanuel Campbell, a 17-year-old teenager, died, shot to death outside a warehouse in the Bronx (NYC), his mother did not know he had gone out, but thought he was in his room, until she received the disastrous call from the police.
Campbell was shot outside Evergreen Deli and Grocery, a block from his family’s home in Soundview, around 3:25 a.m. on Saturday, September 21. “From what his mother told me, she didn’t know he had left the house,” he told Daily News a cousin of the mother who only identified herself as Jessica. “The last time he saw him was at 12 at night. He asked him if he was hungry. “He said no and she fell asleep.”
The mother only woke up to a call from the NYPD and then they went to her house to tell her that her son had been shot in the stomach. Paramedics rushed him to Jacobi Medical Center, but were unable to save him.
The teen’s family speculates that he got hungry during the early morning hours and went to the store located at Evergreen and Westchester Av. to get a snack. A surveillance video obtained by News 12 shows the victim arguing with others outside a car on the sidewalk before a hooded gunman pulled out a gun and fired.
The mother was later seen washing the blood-stained sidewalk with a bottle of bleach, the station reported. Jessica said the teen was a senior at Leadership and Public Service High School in Manhattan and wanted to be an MTA engineer.
In May Emery Mizell, a 17-year-old girl who lived in the same building, was stabbed to death by a fifteen-year-old neighbor. Sincere and Emery were friends, according to the family of the young man who was shot.
No arrests have been made or suspects identified. Anyone with information should call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the website crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
Gun violence is constant in New York and some victims are hit at random on streets, schools, public transportation and businesses. Clashes are often linked to a battle between gang members for turf, and suspects sometimes incriminate themselves by boasting and posting about their crimes on social media.
Last week two teenagers were arrested for recent homicides of immigrants in New York: a 66-year-old grandfather hit by a stray bullet while behind the wheel in Queens, which also led to him hitting a woman; and a mother who was killed during a robbery in front of her family inside her residential building in Lower Manhattan.
Previously, at least five Hispanics were shot to death in New York in less than a week. Additionally, a 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of stabbing six people – including two teenagers – on Sunday in Brooklyn (NYC).