11-Year-Old Girl Was Waiting Outside a Nail Salon When She Was Shot Dead — and Teen is Convicted of Murdering Her

The teen and another man were targeting a rival gang member who was also an adolescent

A New York City teen was sentenced to 10 years to life in prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to shooting an 11-year-old girl in the stomach during a gang-related shootout in the Bronx.

Matthew Godwin, who was 15 at the time of the shooting and is now 18, was sentenced on a second-degree murder charge for the death of 11-year-old Kyhara Tay, according to a news release from Darcel Clark, the Bronx District Attorney.

A police investigation found that on May 16, 2022, Godwin along with Omar Bojang, 21, were riding on an electric scooter driven by Bojang in the Bronx and were looking for a rival gang member…

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