Angellyh Yambo was 16 when she was fatally struck by a stray bullet while walking home from school in the Bronx on April 8, 2022. She had just celebrated her sixteenth birthday and hoped to attend medical school. The shooting occurred near East 156th Street and St. Ann’s Avenue after a dispute between two individuals; one of them, 17-year-old Jeremiah Ryan, fired a handgun and Angellyh was hit in the chest. The bullet pierced her lung and pulmonary artery.

Two other teenagers who were with her were wounded and survived. Angellyh was taken to a hospital but could not be saved. The firearm used was reported to be a ghost gun, a privately made weapon without a serial number. The next day authorities arrested Jeremiah Ryan in connection with the shooting and charged him with murder, attempted murder and criminal possession of a weapon.

How did Angellyh’s community respond in the weeks after her death, and does anyone have information that could help the investigation?