The family of a 16-year-old girl shot and killed just outside a South Bronx high school is suing the manufacturer of the untraceable gun used in the shooting.
Angelie Yambo was on her way home from college charter high school on April 8, 2022, when Jeremiah Ryan, 19, fired a polymer 80 ghost gun, causing a stray bullet to fatally wound the teenage victim. Died.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Bronx County Supreme Court, accuses the manufacturer of negligence and violating state business law.
“This lawsuit is the result of a Bronx family seeking justice and a future where the city of the Bronx is safe for everyone, especially innocent young people,” said the filing on behalf of Yambo’s mother, Yanelly Enriquez. It is a cry.”
Yambo’s death was the result of a network of Polymer 80 dealers and online sellers flooding New York City streets with untraceable gun kits that made it easy to assemble handguns without background checks, lawyers say. argued.
The NYPD seized 389 untraceable ghost guns last year, a 700% increase from 2019.
Weapons can be created using 3D printers or assembled piecemeal using shipped parts and do not have serial numbers.
Ryan, who pleaded guilty last year to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison, was also named in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.
Her daughter was an honor roll student and was remembered as a student with a “beautiful soul.”
“You will always know that your mother loves you forever and is here to fight for you,” she wrote in the Post last year, vowing to pursue justice for the girl. .
Enriquez started a foundation in his daughter’s name that provides self-defense, financial literacy and anti-bullying classes for children.
Polymer80 did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
