16-Year-Old Killed, Two Teens Wounded in Bronx Shooting

A 16-year-old boy was fatally shot and two other teenagers wounded in a gunfire incident in the Bronx's Kingsbridge neighborhood on Wednesday evening, authorities said, as police released images of four suspects they are seeking in connection with the attack.

The shooting occurred around 5 p.m. on West 238th Street near Broadway, close to an entrance to Van Cortlandt Park and outside the Bronx Alehouse. Christopher Redding, a sophomore at Kennedy High School, was struck in the back and later died at St. Barnabas Hospital. A 13-year-old girl, identified by family members as Lakyra Webster, and a 15-year-old boy were both shot in their right legs and remained in stable condition at the hospital the following day, according to police.

Investigators believe the violence stemmed from an earlier dispute inside a nearby McDonald's on Broadway around 4 p.m. A worker at the restaurant described an argument between an adult woman and a group of teenage girls over spilled vanilla ice cream. The woman, who became angry despite offers to repay her, returned with three men and assaulted a teenage girl who was not involved in the initial quarrel, the worker said. As the assault victim...