"The first of the three shootings was Aug. 23 at Haffen Park in Baychester, when gunmen fired over 50 bullets into a community basketball tournament, immediately killing 32-year-old Jaceil Banks and wounding three others. The mass shooting claimed its final-and youngest victim- 17-year-old Anthonaya Campbell, who had been shot in the face, a week later when she was removed from life support at Jacobi Medical Center."
"Campbell's funeral was on Saturday, where clergy members also shared concerns about young people and guns. At the end of the service the four Bishops officiating the funeral service at the New Testament Temple Church of God stood in front of hundreds of people there to celebrate a life cut short by gun violence and encouraged those who may be gun owners or know someone involved in violence to lay down their weapons."
Ten individuals have been charged in connection with three shootings across the northeast Bronx that killed four people and injured seven. The shootings appear retaliatory and gang-related. Law enforcement will shift focus to investigating pipelines that traffic firearms into the borough. Authorities expressed concern about the involvement of teenagers in the violence and vowed to identify who supplies weapons to young people. The Aug. 23 Haffen Park mass shooting involved more than 50 bullets fired into a community basketball tournament, immediately killing 32-year-old Jaceil Banks and later killing 17-year-old Anthonaya Campbell after she was removed from life support. Clergy at Campbell's funeral urged gun owners to surrender weapons.
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