Bumbling baby-faced NYC gangs that accidentally shot one of their own, hit bystanders get nailed by cops

They’re the gangs that couldn’t shoot straight.A bumbling baby-faced Bronx gang accidentally killed one of its own in a gunfight with a rival group — and its foes later fired 17 shots at one of them but missed, instead grazing a passer-by in the head, officials said Monday in announcing a takedown of some of the members.A member of the bungling gang that shot the innocent victim even admitted in a drill rap video just how badly the hit was botched — rapping, “I don’t know how we missed them,’’ authorities said.“This is a lost generation,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said at a press conference unveiling the sweeping 208-count indictment against 19 members of the warring 9Raq and Thirdside gangs — none older than 23, with the youngest just 16.“Youth are shooting people right here, right outside our very courthouses,” Clark said.

“They turn 161st Street, two blocks from Yankee Stadium, into a war zone.“The Bronx is bleeding, and I’m doing everything within my power to make it stop.”The young thugs committed a slew of crimes ranging from murder to grand larceny over the past four years in neighborhoods such as Claremont and Belmont — with adult gang members passing them their loaded weapons to take advantage of the state’s “Raise the Age” law that protects minors, authorities said.But the move may have come with a price.Alleged 9Raq member Nixon Rodriguez was fatally shot by a member of his own young crew June 2, 2023, on Olinville Avenue during a failed mission in rival gang territory, prosecutors said.Last month, a Thirdside defendant also posted a drill rap music video to his Instagram admitting he took part in a botched shootout with 9Raq near a middle school in the early afternoon of March 30, authorities said.At least 17 shots were fired, but none of them hit their intended rival gang members.

Instead, a bullet grazed a 22-year-old man in the head as he was driving by the corner in his car, Clark said.“I don�...