15-year-old indicted for fatally shooting man outside Bronx courthouse

A teen was indicted Friday for the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old man close adjacent the Bronx courthouse, the Bronx territory lawyer announced.

Jayden Baez, 15, was indicted connected charges of murder, attempted murder, transgression possession of a limb and battle for the November sidesplitting of Jerron Grant, 29, crossed the thoroughfare from the Bronx County Hall of Justice.

“The defendant, lone 15 years old, is allegedly liable for aggregate incidents of weapon unit past fall,” Bronx DA Darcel Clark said. “He allegedly brazenly fired shots close adjacent the courthouse connected the day earlier Thanksgiving, sidesplitting a antheral and causing fearfulness among the passersby.”

Baez is accused of firing aggregate shots astatine Grant, striking him successful the torso, connected Nov. 27 astir 2:42 p.m., adjacent E. 161st St. and Morris Ave. successful the South Bronx. Grant was rushed to Lincoln Hospital wherever helium died aboriginal that day.

Cops who were connected patrol saw the shooting and chased the younker arsenic helium took disconnected and fled into a adjacent gathering connected 158th St. Officers arrested Baez adjacent the extortion landing wrong the building.

A .40-caliber semi-automatic pistol was recovered connected the crushed wherever Baez crouched connected a ledge.

“I heard astatine slightest six shots,” a 28-year-old pistillate told the Daily News astatine the clip of the shooting. “Me and my co-worker conscionable stayed here, we didn’t spell outside. … It’s crazy. It was daytime.”

The Bronx DA’s Office additionally linked Baez to different shooting a week before, connected Nov. 20, of a 65-year-old woman. In that incident, the younker allegedly passed a weapon to Ley Baio, 17, wrong a Bronx gathering astatine E. 161st St. and Morris Ave. Baio past rode a Citi Bike with an unidentified antheral to E. 149th St. and Jackson Ave. successful Mott Haven, wherever Baio gave the weapon to the sidekick, who fired aggregate gunshots toward a assemblage of people, striking the aged pistillate successful the leg.

The 3rd fishy successful the Nov. 20 incidental is inactive being sought by police.

Baez is besides linked to a 3rd shooting, a period earlier, connected Oct. 14, erstwhile helium allegedly fired the aforesaid weapon utilized successful the erstwhile 2 incidents, this clip astatine a assemblage of radical connected E. 143rd St. and Morris Ave. successful Mott Haven. Five bullet-shell casings recovered astatine the country were linked to the weapon utilized successful the 2 earlier shootings, according to the DA.