Police recognized a suspect Thursday within the deadly capturing of Honest Campbell, a 17-year-old boy who was gunned down outdoors a deli a block away from his household’s Bronx residence in 2024.
Christopher Mejia, 28, is being sought in reference to the capturing outdoors the Evergreen Deli and Grocery situated at Evergreen and Westchester Aves. in Soundview round 3:25 a.m. on Sept. 21, 2024, cops mentioned.
Mejia has 4 prior arrests, together with assaults in 2019 and 2022, and a DUI in 2020, cops mentioned. He was most not too long ago busted for driving with a suspended license in 2024, in response to regulation enforcement.
The NYPD additionally launched Mejia’s mugshot and is asking for the general public’s assist monitoring him down.
Surveillance video obtained by Bronx Information 12 exhibits Honest arguing with a number of males outdoors a automotive on the curb earlier than a hooded gunman drew a weapon and opened fireplace.
Campbell’s mom thought her son was at residence when police referred to as her late that evening, a relative informed the Each day Information.
“From what his mom informed me, she didn’t know he’d left the home,” mentioned the 43-year-old cousin of Honest’s mom, who gave her title as Jessica. ”The final she’d seen him was 12 midnight. She requested if he was hungry. He mentioned no and he or she fell asleep.”
The teenager’s household speculates he later walked to the bodega for a snack.
Jessica mentioned Honest was a senior at Management and Public Service Excessive Faculty in Manhattan, and wished to be an engineer for the MTA.
“Me and him had been speaking about him doing an apprenticeship program for the MTA and beginning the method of turning into an engineer,” Jessica mentioned. “He was very critical about this since he was in elementary college. He beloved Thomas the Tank Engine. He all the time talked about that all through his life — he wished to be a practice engineer. He all the time caught with that.”
He additionally beloved watching and studying anime, the household mentioned, including he was an enormous fan of basketball and soccer, and that his favourite gamers had been Stephen Curry and Lionel Messi.
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