NORWOOD, Bronx (WABC) A teenager has been arrested in the murder of a 16-year-old who was returning to his Bronx apartment, simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, according to police.
Kahlik Grier was fatally shot just before midnight Tuesday after he encountered the alleged gunman who had opened fire at a party a few floors above in the building on Webster Avenue in the Norwood section.
Authorities say 19-year-old Desire Louree was fleeing the building when he ran into Grier, shooting him once in the neck.
Louree is now charged with murder.
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When the gunman was fleeing the building, police say he encountered 16-year-old Kahlik Grier in the stairwell between the eighth and ninth floors of the building.
Grier was shot in the neck and rushed to NYC Health & Hospitals/Jacobi, where he later died. It s sad, it s just sad, one neighbor said. He s 16 years old, coming home, he gets shot for no reason. It s sad.
According to police, Grier lived in the building and was on his way home at the time.
A teenager is dead and two other people hospitalized after a shooting broke up a house party in the Bronx. It happened just before 12 a.m. Tuesday at an apartment building in the 3500 block of Webster Avenue in Norwood.