A 17-year-old boy has been arrested and charged with murder in the Bronx shooting that killed 16-year-old football standout Christopher Redding and wounded two other teens, police said.
The suspect was taken into custody Saturday in the northwest Bronx.
The teen was hit with a slew of charges, including murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, assault and criminal possession of a loaded firearm, according to the NYPD.
Police have not publicly identified the arrested teen because he is a minor.
The arrest is the first in connection with Wednesday’s deadly shooting at Broadway and West 238th Street in Kingsbridge.
Redding, 16, was shot in the back around 5:10 p.m. after a dispute inside a nearby McDonald’s, which spilled into the street and escalated into a street brawl, according to his father.
Officers responding to a 911 call of multiple people shot found Redding gravely wounded along with a 15-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, both struck in the right leg, cops said.
EMS rushed all three to St. Barnabas Hospital, where Redding was pronounced dead. The two younger teens were listed in stable condition.
Redding, of 1454 Walton Ave., had gone out to get food when the chaos erupted, his father, Bryan Corley, said.
“He was going to get something to eat,” Corley said. “Some kids started trouble, words were exchanged, and that’s what happened.”
Corley said the teen was trying to help a friend when the chaos turned deadly.
“What we hear is that there was an altercation inside the McDonald’s with one of his female friends and an older lady who had a young child with her,” Corley said.
“The lady called the guys. They were antagonizing her. The girl called my son, Christopher. He got over there and separated them.”
“As he was walking away with the girl, the kid pulled out a gun and started shooting.”
Three additional suspects remain at large.
NYPD detectives released surveillance images of four people wanted in connection with the shooting.
Authorities have not disclosed what sparked the initial dispute inside the McDonald’s.
Investigators are probing whether the shooting was gang-related and whether Redding was targeted or caught in the chaos.
Anyone with information about the remaining suspects is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS. The investigation remains ongoing.
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