The devastated mother of an 11 -year -old girl killed by a lost bullet outside a Bronx nail room begged answers to her murderers in the court on Wednesday, as one of the teenage thugs was beaten with a 10 -year sentence.
Yanisha Gómez said in an emotional statement in the Supreme Court of Bronx that the pain of losing little Kyhara Tay in the Sensess 2022 shooting remains fresh three years later.
“This nightmare does not want anyone,” Gomez snapped with the murderers with a baby face. “A mother should never feel this pain. An innocent child should never be removed from a mother like this. I want to ask everyone,” Do you feel any remorse, repentance, shame, guilt? ”
“Because your intentions were taking another young teenager and they all ended up appreciating life and loved God,” he said. “You all denied the opportunity to graduate, be in love and live life. They took all their dreams.”
Matthew Godwin, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison as part of a cheerful agreement on Wednesday, was only 15 years old when Omar Bojang, 18, 18, was reduced in a cyclomotor shooter for a 13 -year -old boy on May 16, said 2022.
She was urgently taken to the Lincoln hospital, where she was a dead dead.
The adolescents who were assigned to the weapons, who were trapped in images of the security chamber, then arrested and arrested for second degree murder positions on June 3, 2022, and since then they have a leg hero after the bars.
“I am very sorry for what I have done and the pain that I have caused you,” Godwin told Gómez in court on Wednesday. “I am also very disappointed in myself and the pain that I have caused you. I assume all my action.”
“As I grew up, I realized that I took the life of an innocent 11 -year -old girl,” he said. “At night, I cry to sleep, knowing what I have done. It doesn’t happen a day when I don’t feel regret and remorse.”
Both declared guilty last month in exchange for agreed sentences, and Godwin received 10 years and Bojang hoped to be sentenced to 15 years on May 14 after meeting with probation officials.
The older gun also addressed the girl’s mother in court/
“I just want to pay my quotas to society and you know, just show everyone that I am not the monster that everyone created or puts me to be,” said Bojang. “I would like this pain in anyone. I also regret my mother, my dad and my family for disappointing you. They raised me to be better than that.”
Bronx da Darcel Clark called the mortal shooting “a catastrophe for our young people.”
Kyhara was a student at Mrs. 424, the Bronx Academy for Multimedia.
The bubbly girl’s family said that Kiara’s name bears the name of the Disney animated film “Lion King II”, with the Y and H, which are the initials of her mother, adds to the name.
“Dad tells me Kyahara is the daughter of the Lions because the family is so close that always together, as a pride,” police told journalists after the shooting.
The tragic death of the girl occurred in the middle of a series of shootings in the five districts aimed at adolescents and young people, including the son of a 17 -year -old police officer, a 14 -year -old boy wounded in Bronx a week before Kyhara’s death, and a 3 -year -old girl who was injured while leaving a Brownsville day care center with her father on Broad Day Light.
“I can’t believe I am in this position,” said Yanisha Gómez in the Bronx Supreme Court on Wednesday. “As a mother, I will say that I will never forget the day I lost my son. I will continue to ask God for justice, either from here or from the hereafter.
“Our only hope is that justice prevails.”
