The teenager arrested for shooting an 8-year-old outside a Bronx store is being held on $250,000 bail—though the Bronx DA's office had asked that he be held without bail. The Post reports that a prosecutor said, “Due to the heinous nature of the crime and that an 8-year-old was shot, there should be no bail." But Eduardo Rodriguez's mother said he's a "good boy... He goes to school, he’s never had any trouble like this." However, Rodriguez, 15, was arrested in September for an armed robbery.
On Tuesday, little Armando Bigo had asked his mother Ely Flores to buy him some chips just before 8 p.m. at the Papa Yala’s Deli on Randall Ave. near St. Lawrence Ave. in Soundview. But a gunman on a bike shot him, hitting the child in the shoulder. Police believe the gunman was targeting another man who was in the front of the bodega. As you can see in the surveillance video of the incident below, Armando barely flinched when he was hit: “I felt this pain. I didn’t know what it was. It felt bad. It felt real bad.”
Rodriguez was arrested on Saturday and, according to the Post, at his Sunday arraignment, he was "subdued" but before the hearing, he was acting "like a wise ass" to court officers. Rodriguez's lawyer managed to bail amount set by noting, “This case is about one eyewitness making an ID. My client did surrender himself with family members when he knew cops were looking for him."
