bloodrayne
05-01-2005, 02:11 PM
He's A Killer At 15, Cops Say
New York - A teenaged gangmember bummed a ride to a Brooklyn building from his father and then gunned down a girl inside - before calmly walking back to the car, his father none the wiser, police said yesterday.
Sammy Rivera, 15, allegedly shot almost a dozen bullets inside the Sunset Park apartment, killing a 17-year-old girl and wounding two others, including a pregnant teen.
He was arrested soon after the Thursday night killing when cops called his father's cell phone and surrounded the car with the alleged teen gunman still inside, police said. The arrest provided little comfort to the stunned family of Barbara Nieves, who died after being shot twice in the chest at close range.
"Why would he do that to her?" sobbed her grandmother, Camille Marin, 55, at the family's Queens home.
"He shouldn't live either," Marin said. "Why should he live his good life and kill others?" Rivera, a sophomore at Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn, was enraged because someone had "disrespected" his girlfriend, according to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
Out for revenge, Rivera, a member of the Latin Kings, asked his father, Samuel Rivera, 60, to give him, his girlfriend and his sister a lift to an apartment on 54th St., police said. When they arrived, the elder Rivera sat in the idling car, while his son went upstairs, cops said.
Sammy Rivera knocked on the door of a fourth-floor apartment, and as soon as it opened, he sprayed bullets from a 9-mm. handgun into a crowd of 10 people, police said.
Nieves was killed instantly while Octavio Figueroa, 21, and his pregnant girlfriend, Rachel Rivera, 15, both of Brooklyn, were wounded, police said.
Figueroa was hit in the leg, while Rachel Rivera - who is not related to the suspect - was hit in the ankle and shoulder. Her unborn child was unhurt. She and Figueroa were released from Lutheran Medical Center yesterday.
Nieves, Figueroa and most of the people in the apartment are members of the Latin Kings, police sources said.
When cops arrived at the bullet-ridden home at 10:20 p.m., witnesses ratted out Rivera and cops soon pulled over his father's car at the corner of Avenue U and McDonald Ave., police said.
Kelly said one of the men at the apartment had insulted Rivera's girlfriend sometime earlier but Figueroa's friends claimed Nieves was the intended target.
Rivera was arraigned early this morning on murder charges, and prosecutors also were readying attempted murder charges for a gang-related beating in September.
Rivera's girlfriend denied he was the triggerman. "I know he's not guilty," said Renee Azer, 16. "He doesn't have the heart to do something like this."
New York - A teenaged gangmember bummed a ride to a Brooklyn building from his father and then gunned down a girl inside - before calmly walking back to the car, his father none the wiser, police said yesterday.
Sammy Rivera, 15, allegedly shot almost a dozen bullets inside the Sunset Park apartment, killing a 17-year-old girl and wounding two others, including a pregnant teen.
He was arrested soon after the Thursday night killing when cops called his father's cell phone and surrounded the car with the alleged teen gunman still inside, police said. The arrest provided little comfort to the stunned family of Barbara Nieves, who died after being shot twice in the chest at close range.
"Why would he do that to her?" sobbed her grandmother, Camille Marin, 55, at the family's Queens home.
"He shouldn't live either," Marin said. "Why should he live his good life and kill others?" Rivera, a sophomore at Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn, was enraged because someone had "disrespected" his girlfriend, according to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
Out for revenge, Rivera, a member of the Latin Kings, asked his father, Samuel Rivera, 60, to give him, his girlfriend and his sister a lift to an apartment on 54th St., police said. When they arrived, the elder Rivera sat in the idling car, while his son went upstairs, cops said.
Sammy Rivera knocked on the door of a fourth-floor apartment, and as soon as it opened, he sprayed bullets from a 9-mm. handgun into a crowd of 10 people, police said.
Nieves was killed instantly while Octavio Figueroa, 21, and his pregnant girlfriend, Rachel Rivera, 15, both of Brooklyn, were wounded, police said.
Figueroa was hit in the leg, while Rachel Rivera - who is not related to the suspect - was hit in the ankle and shoulder. Her unborn child was unhurt. She and Figueroa were released from Lutheran Medical Center yesterday.
Nieves, Figueroa and most of the people in the apartment are members of the Latin Kings, police sources said.
When cops arrived at the bullet-ridden home at 10:20 p.m., witnesses ratted out Rivera and cops soon pulled over his father's car at the corner of Avenue U and McDonald Ave., police said.
Kelly said one of the men at the apartment had insulted Rivera's girlfriend sometime earlier but Figueroa's friends claimed Nieves was the intended target.
Rivera was arraigned early this morning on murder charges, and prosecutors also were readying attempted murder charges for a gang-related beating in September.
Rivera's girlfriend denied he was the triggerman. "I know he's not guilty," said Renee Azer, 16. "He doesn't have the heart to do something like this."