A summer evening water gun fight in Starlight Park turned fatal when 17-year-old Darrell Harris was shot on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. The confrontation began after Harris repeatedly asked another participant to stop spraying him with a water gun; according to witnesses, the person then produced a real firearm and shot Harris. The shooting happened at about 8:15 p.m. near Sheridan Boulevard and East 173rd Street. Harris suffered gunshot wounds to the head and right arm and was taken to Jacobi Hospital in critical condition, where he later died.

Harris was a rising senior at the Bronx Leadership Academy. His mother, Kellie Lewis, said he was a quiet child who mostly stayed indoors; she also noted this was the second son she had lost to gun violence, her older son having been killed in a 2021 shooting. As of late June 2025, the New York City Police Department had not announced any arrests and had not publicly identified a shooter. The investigation remains ongoing.

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