Bronx boy, 16, shot in neck riding moped dies 6 weeks later

A 16-year-old Bronx lad has died weeks aft helium was shot successful the neck portion riding his moped, cops said Thursday.

Kemari Sanders, 16, succumbed to his wounds connected Oct. 4 — six weeks aft a gunman opened fire extracurricular a closed daycare connected Bryant Ave. adjacent Jennings St. successful Crotona Park East conscionable earlier 1 a.m. connected Aug. 23, cops said.

“I was conscionable upstairs connected the telephone with my fellow and I conscionable heard a popular truthful I conscionable thought it was a firework,” adjacent nonmigratory Jelisa Munda, 17, told the Daily News successful August.

Kemari Sanders, 16, was fatally changeable connected Bryant Ave. adjacent Jennings St. successful Crotona Park East successful the Bronx Aug. 23. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

Cops recovered the teen lying successful a excavation of humor with a gunshot coiled to his neck. A sweatshirt, a fewer reddish Solo cups, a lighter and a moped were recovered nearby, cops were told.

Medics rushed Kemari to St. Barnabas Hospital successful captious condition. He was little than a mile from location erstwhile helium was shot, according to cops.

The shooter is inactive connected the loose.

Kemari Sanders, 16, was fatally changeable connected Bryant Ave. adjacent Jennings St. successful Crotona Park East successful the Bronx Aug. 23. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)

Sanders told his mother, Selena Cox, that helium was going to a friend’s house anterior to the shooting, Cox told News 12 successful August.

The teen was uncooperative erstwhile questioned by detectives erstwhile helium was conscious and inactive alive, a constabulary root said.

Investigators fishy the shooting was linked to pack enactment successful the area, though it wasn’t wide if the unfortunate was progressive with a gang.