The number of children filmed in New York City has increased 15% so far this year in regards to the last one, and has shot 114% compared to pre-Pandemics 2018, according to NYPD data.
The number of teenage shooters decreased by 5% this year until the end, but increased a dramatic 70% since 2018.
At this point in 2018, there were 14 victims of youth shooting compared to 30 until now in 2025. There were 10 youth shooters compared to 17 in those years, respectively, according to the data.
The teenage victims so far this year include Juan José Pena, an 18 -year -old boy who hoped to join the Navy, who was shot dead around 1:25 am on February 2 in Park Avenue near East 176th Street in the Bronx, police said.
Since his death, his disconsolate mother has tasks of her three reminiscent children and fled to the Dominican Republic, said Shery Olivo to the post.
“She doesn’t want to go back,” said Olivo. “She still has three children to take care of. He doesn’t think they are safe here.”
A 17 -year -old was arrested and accused of murder, involuntary homicide and criminal possession of a weapon in the death of Pena, police said. The police were looking for two additional suspects, police said.
Pena, that he had no criminal record, had just sent a text message to his mother who was in his way home before he cut it, the family said.
“My nephew died 10 months ago and did nothing wrong,” said the aunt. “The person who killed my nephew is still in the streets, maybe committing another crime and going out with his while my sister is crying every day. I’m not doing enough.”
Oliva is alarmed by the amount of play bees thrown and loaded in the city, he said.
“When will this end?” She asked. “What are the elected officials doing? They don’t care what is happening in the city. This is bad.
For Mother Yanely Henríquez, sick statistics bring the pain she suffered when the 16 -year -old honor daughter, Angellyh Yambo, was fatally murdered in 2022 by Jeremiah Ryan, 17, in the Bronx.
“It is unfortunate that it happens continuously every day,” he told The Post this week. “Elected officials should be doing more. This is an alarm. It means that more children go to that like my daughter.”
He would like to take his children and move, but Shey to stay close to his daughter’s tomb.
“I would like to be able to take my children and go to another place, but because my daughter was buried here, I’m trapped here,” he said. “I don’t want to stay in New York. My daughter and I were going to move to Florida, but we are trapped here, it is buried here.”
She said children today do not respect the law.
“I worry when my children come out,” he said. “I’m always calling.
The commissioner assistant of youth strategies retired from the New York Police, Kevin O’Connor, believes that the age legislation increases that prevents the courts from accusing suspects under 18 as adults contribute to the increase in the increase in shootings among young people.
“Youth crime in New York has only dropped 4% compared to last year,” while general crime has dropped 18%, he said. “It is basically flat. Everything is to” raise age. “No one is being prosecuted in the youth world.”
The law of “raising age” demands that minors trapped with firearms appear in the Family Court. Before the law changed, they were processed in a criminal court of 16 and 17 and many of them ended up imprisoned in Rikers Island.
Part of the problem is that the judges are not aware of the previous positions of a teenager, which has led to unincluded, said O’Connor.
“The judges cannot see the previous story when a child is taken before them,” said O’Connor.
“You must empower the judge to make a complete determination in the child in front of them, what they do at this time,” he said. “Then, they can save this child real to become a career criminal.”
