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1 year old Antiq Hennis was killed by a bullet intended for his dad, officials said. While sitting in a stroller with his parents nearby their Riverdale Ave. home, at least four shots were fired Sunday evening. The child was hit in the head and was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Antiq is the 16th victim under the age of 16 to be shot on city streets since mid-May, and he is the second child to die, according to a Daily News review.
The boy’s grieving parents were hunkered down in their home late Sunday.
“The family is shocked and devastated,” Councilman Charles Barron said after comforting the bereft couple. “The child didn’t even get a chance to start his life, and now it’s over.”
A woman identifying herself as Antiq’s godmother left the hospital shaken after the boy died.
“I saw him, I saw him in there, oh my goodness, oh my God, oh my Lord,” she wailed. “He was just a baby.”
No arrests had been made as of late Sunday, police said.
But a source in the Brownsville community said the shooter’s street name has been given to cops.
Bishop Willie Billips, a local anti-violence activist, was with the parents as they made the gut-wrenching official identification of their lifeless child.
“I’m furious about what I’ve just seen. I’m outraged,” Billips said. “A 1-year-old baby lying on the bed? It’s horrible.”
There was little solace he could offer to the family, Billips added.
“What do you say? It brought me to tears. To see young parents suffer — for what?”
The relative said that Antiq’s parents, who hail from Trinidad, celebrated their son’s first birthday in May. He said it was the father, who has a record of more than 20 arrests, who was in the gunman’s crosshairs.
“They shot at him and ended up shooting the baby,” Dobson said.
Detectives believe the shooting was payback for an earlier dispute, according to sources.
Another source said the dad dashed away from the stroller to draw the gunfire from his son.
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1 year old Antiq Hennis was killed by a bullet intended for his dad, officials said. While sitting in a stroller with his parents nearby their Riverdale Ave. home, at least four shots were fired Sunday evening. The child was hit in the head and was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Antiq is the 16th victim under the age of 16 to be shot on city streets since mid-May, and he is the second child to die, according to a Daily News review.
The boy’s grieving parents were hunkered down in their home late Sunday.
“The family is shocked and devastated,” Councilman Charles Barron said after comforting the bereft couple. “The child didn’t even get a chance to start his life, and now it’s over.”
A woman identifying herself as Antiq’s godmother left the hospital shaken after the boy died.
“I saw him, I saw him in there, oh my goodness, oh my God, oh my Lord,” she wailed. “He was just a baby.”
No arrests had been made as of late Sunday, police said.
But a source in the Brownsville community said the shooter’s street name has been given to cops.
Bishop Willie Billips, a local anti-violence activist, was with the parents as they made the gut-wrenching official identification of their lifeless child.
“I’m furious about what I’ve just seen. I’m outraged,” Billips said. “A 1-year-old baby lying on the bed? It’s horrible.”
There was little solace he could offer to the family, Billips added.
“What do you say? It brought me to tears. To see young parents suffer — for what?”
The relative said that Antiq’s parents, who hail from Trinidad, celebrated their son’s first birthday in May. He said it was the father, who has a record of more than 20 arrests, who was in the gunman’s crosshairs.
“They shot at him and ended up shooting the baby,” Dobson said.
Detectives believe the shooting was payback for an earlier dispute, according to sources.
Another source said the dad dashed away from the stroller to draw the gunfire from his son.
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