4 arrested in New York City park shooting that left 1 victim dead and 4 hurt

A man was killed and four other people were injured when gunfire broke out on Saturday night at a New York City park, according to police and witnesses.

​A man was killed and four other people were injured when gunfire broke out on Saturday night at a New York City park, according to police and witnesses.   

Four suspects, including two teenagers, have been arrested on suspicion of murder and gang assault after they allegedly opened fire on a crowd gathered over the weekend at a New York City park for a basketball tournament, killing one man and injuring four other victims, according to police.

The gunfire erupted around 7:27 p.m. on Saturday inside Haffen Park in the Bronx, prompting the crowd on hand to scatter and seek cover, according to the New York Police Department. At least 48 shell casings were recovered at the scene, according to the NYPD.

The four suspects arrested were identified as 20-year-old Daeven Reyes and 25-year-old Robert Royal, both of the Bronx; a 17-year-old boy and a 16-year-old, whose names were not released because they are minors. The suspects were each charged with murder, four counts of attempted murder, gang assault and criminal possession of a weapon, police said.

Officers responded to Haffen Park in the Baychester neighborhood of the Bronx after 911 callers reported multiple people had been shot, according to a statement from the NYPD.

ABC New York City station WABC reported that the shooting occurred as a crowd had gathered for a youth basketball tournament.

Upon arrival to the park, officers found a 32-year-old man who had been shot in the chest and a 17-year-old girl who had been shot in the head, according to the police statement.

Both victims were taken to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx where the male victim, identified as Jaceil Banks, was pronounced dead, police said. The wounded teenage girl, identified by her family as Anthonaya Campbell, remains in critical condition, according to police.

Campbell was shot in the back of the head and the bullet lodged behind her eye, her mother, Jennifer Talbot, told WABC.

“She must have got up and tried to run,” Talbot said. “My grandson was there and he ran up and thought she was dead. And my other daughter went down there and panicked and somebody else started to do CPR.”

Talbot said her daughter was breathing with the help of a life-support machine.

Three other victims wounded in the park shooting showed up at hospitals in private vehicles, including a 30-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman, who were who were both shot in the back and were listed in stable condition, police said on Sunday. A 42-year-old man was also shot in the arm during the incident and was taken by private vehicle to Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, where he was in stable condition on Sunday.

A motive for the shooting remains under investigation, according to police, who are asking anyone who may have witnessed the shooting to contact detectives immediately.

Saturday’s shooting marked the second consecutive weekend that the NYPD responded to a mass casualty shooting involving gang members.

Three men were killed and 11 people were wounded during an Aug. 17 incident in which multiple shooters opened fire inside the Taste of the City Lounge, a bar and restaurant in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood. Police said two of the three people killed were involved in the shooting and that one man who was fatally shot was an uninvolved bystander.

Two other perpetrators who allegedly opened fire inside the lounge remain at large, authorities said. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said investigators have determined that the lounge shooting was gang related.

The shootings occurred as the most recent NYPD crime statistics show homicides citywide are down by 19.6% so far this year compared to the same year-to-date period in 2024. The data also show that the number of shooting victims are down 19.4% this year compared to 2024, and the number of shooting incidents has fallen by nearly 20% over the same period compared to last year.