Four reputed gangbangers, including two teens, were hit with murder charges in the senseless Saturday night Bronx shooting that left one dead and a 17-year-old girl fighting for her life.
Robert Royal, 25, and Daeven Reyes, 20, were ordered held without bail after they were arraigned in Bronx Criminal Court on Monday night and charged with murder, attempted murder, gang assault and criminal possession of a weapon, according to prosecutors.
Also charged with murder in the senseless shooting are 17-year-old Messiah Hugie and Ny’Zay Wigfall, 16, who will both have their cases sent to the youth part of adult court, prosecutors said.
Robert Royal, 25, was charged with murder and gang assault in Saturday’s fatal shooting at a Bronx park. obtained by the NYPost.Wigall was arraigned on the charges on Tuesday and ordered held without bail, while Hugie is due in court on Wednesday.
All four are accused for storming a festive basketball tournament in Haffen Park around 7:30 p.m. Saturday and opening fire, killing Jaceil Banks, 32, and wounding four others — including 17-year-old Anthonaya Campbell, a Connecticut teen visiting friends and family in the neighborhood.
Campbell’s mom, Jennifer Talbot, told The Post the tragic news came as she was celebrating her PhD graduation from Heart Bible International University, and she rushed to Jacobi Hospital to find her daughter in the ICU with a gunshot wound to the head.
Doctors told her to be prepared to say goodbye.
Campbell was still listed in critical condition at the hospital on Tuesday, according to police.
Anthonaya Campbell, 17, was enjoying a Bronx basketball tournament in the Bronx when she was hit by a stray bullet. Courtesy of the Talbot FamilyReyes has one unsealed gun possession bust from last year, while Royal, who was wounded in a separate shooting last month, has a pending case for allegedly assaulting a cop and two sealed cases, according to law enforcement sources.
Royal’s mother, Mattie Losey, 50, said exclusively to the Post that her son was charged with attempted murder and gun possession in another case last year but was “ultimately exonerated.”
“They were passing out bookbags and people started shooting and the police started looking [for] somebody with an orange shirt on,” she said of the shooting. “So they grabbed my son. My son ain’t have an orange shirt on. He had an orange hoodie.
Four reputed gangbangers are now charged in the senseless Bronx shooting that left one dead and four wounded. Kevin C Downs forThe New York Post
Jennifer Talbot, right, with mayoral candidate irene Estrada after Talbot’s daughter was hit by a stray bullet. Tomas E. Gaston“It’s mistaken identity because that [victim] was his friend,” Losey added.
She said her son is a drill rapper and does not own any guns.
Asked about the earlier attempted murder rap, Losey said he was running from a shooting.
“It was a shootout there,” she said. “He was running home. He ran from the bullets and they came and he came behind him and they bust my door open.
“They came up in there and they locked him up. I’m tired of these police.”
Additional reporting by Reuven Fenton and Joe Marino
