Seventeen-year-old Anthonaya Campbell was fatally shot while attending a back-to-school basketball tournament at Haffen Park in the Bronx on August 23, 2025. Visiting from Hartford with her family, she was an innocent bystander in the bleachers when gunfire erupted; struck in the head by a stray bullet, she was taken to Jacobi Hospital and placed on life support. Anthonaya died on September 8, 2025.

Authorities described the incident as gang-related and said nearly 60 shots were fired. Another person, 32-year-old Jaceil Banks, was also killed and three others were injured. The NYPD arrested multiple suspects shortly after the shooting; among those initially charged with murder were two teenagers, a 16-year-old and a 17-year-old, and adults identified as 20-year-old Daeven Reyes and 25-year-old Robert Royal. Reports later linked additional arrests to this and related shootings around Labor Day weekend.

Anthonaya’s mother, Jennifer Talbot, said her daughter was joyful, planned to train as a patient care technician and hoped to become a speech pathologist. Hundreds attended a memorial at Haffen Park where mourners released purple and white balloons and wore shirts bearing Anthonaya’s nickname, Ming. If anyone has information about the shooting or knew Anthonaya, please come forward to share what you know.