The bereft mother of a 14-year-old boy stabbed to demise in a Bronx playground wept Monday as her son’s alleged killers walked into court docket.
Ramona Hernandez de Mendoza — whose ninth-grader Angel Mendoza was killed merely for being within the fallacious place on the fallacious time, in accordance with cops — sobbed so loudly that considered one of 4 youths charged in his homicide checked out her a number of instances over his shoulder.
The suspect, 18-year-old Jordan Williams, and fellow accused killer Andrew Ansah, 18, each waived their testimony in entrance of a grand jury, shifting the case one step nearer to a possible trial centered round a bloodthirsty brawl final week in Norwood’s Williamsbridge Oval Playground.
“At this time … started the struggle of justice,” Mendoza’s father, Miguel Mendoza, advised reporters outdoors the courtroom.
“We hope that the judges think about that everybody who participated on this act of violence can pay for it. As a result of this was not a prison from the road, this was not a child from the road, this was a boy.”
Ansah, Williams and two minors — boys ages 15 and 16 — ruthlessly pistol-whipped, beat and stabbed Mendoza as revenge for an earlier slashing that he wasn’t concerned in, sources have stated.
The sufferer, a form teen who beloved basketball, reggaeton and rap, was merely within the fallacious place when the group descended on the park, sources stated.
His mindless demise surprised the neighborhood and left his household shattered — however the listening to made clear his alleged killers aren’t with out supporters.
At the very least eight individuals, seemingly members of the family, blew kisses and yelled, “We love you!” as Williams walked into the courtroom.
Ansah had 5 supporters within the courtroom— all youngsters — who uttered, “Free you” as he made his personal entrance.
The supportive sentiments left Mendoza’s household very upset.
“Are you f–king kidding me?” a relative stated.
Ansah and Williams are due again in court docket Aug. 27.
