Boy, 15, busted for fatally shooting 16-year-old on Harlem street: NYPD

A 15-year-old lad has been arrested for fatally shooting different teen successful Harlem.

The teenage suspect, who is not being named due to the fact that of his age, opened occurrence connected Clarence Jones, 16, adjacent the country W. 124th St. and Lenox Ave. astir 1:30 a.m. connected Oct. 24, cops said.

Jones was deed successful the torso and was rushed to Harlem Hospital, wherever helium died. He was 1 of 5 teens killed successful the metropolis wrong 5 days past week, constabulary said.

A brace of gunmen connected Razor scooters opened occurrence connected Jones, witnesses told police.

Two youths opened occurrence connected W. 124th St. adjacent Lenox Ave. successful Harlem connected Oct. 24, sidesplitting Clarence Jones, a 16-year-old boy. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

A pistillate who happened to beryllium connected the artifact erstwhile the execution took spot ran implicit aft she heard the gunshots and saw Jones and the suspects afterward.

“I was nether the scaffolding, and 2 guys rode by connected scooters,” said the 50-year-old woman, who did not supply her name. “They was each dressed successful each achromatic — hoodies, masks, everything.”

“CJ — everybody called him CJ — was lying determination connected his backmost by the bank. He was shot,” the witnesser said. “The guys who did it was gone.

In the aftermath of the shooting, investigators identified the 15-year-old lad arsenic a fishy successful Jones’ death, constabulary sources said. He was grabbed by cops patrolling successful Harlem Thursday nighttime and charged with execution successful the 2nd degree.

Shooting unfortunate Clarence Jones is pictured successful a photograph posted connected societal media successful 2019.

The teen’s arraignment was pending successful Manhattan Criminal Court Friday.

Jones was astir 9 blocks from location erstwhile helium was gunned down, according to cops.

Police person yet to disclose a motive for the killing, but the unfortunate was connected probation for a lawsuit involving astatine slightest 1 robbery successful which it’s believed helium displayed a gun, and was a fishy successful different equipped robbery that took spot successful 2023, 2 blocks from his home.

In that second case, successful which cipher has been arrested, 4 crooks entered a store, jumped implicit the information solid and removed currency from the currency register, with 1 of the robbers brandishing a gun.

Jones had galore different anterior arrests, constabulary said.

In the gunfire that killed the victim, a stray slug went done the broadside model of this Toyota Camry. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

“We don’t cognize what happened. We don’t cognize astir target. We cognize idiosyncratic killed our nephew. They conscionable took his beingness senselessly. He was lone 16,” said Desiree Murray, 59, who identified herself arsenic a paternal aunt and lives successful the close-knit flat gathering wherever Clarence lived with his father.

Clarence’s aunt said the teen had gotten caught up with a atrocious assemblage but had goals for a antithetic life.

“He was a bully kid,” Murray said. “Kids get into stuff. Kids bash stuff. But wide helium was a sweetheart.”

During the shooting, a stray slug blasted done the model of a passing Toyota Camry, hitting the 51-year-old livery driver’s headrest.

The operator continued to W. 116th St., wherever helium called police. He suffered an receptor wounded but it wasn’t wide if helium was grazed by the stray slug, struck by breaking solid oregon wounded immoderate different mode arsenic helium dodged the bullet, cops said.

The operator was treated astatine Mount Sinai West.