Gunman kills rival after Bronx baby shower fight then is fatally shot with his own gun by victim’s brother
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A gunman killed a rival after a fight at a Bronx baby shower — only to be fatally shot with his own gun by the victim’s younger brother, cops said Sunday.
The two men who wound up dead were inside a party at Webster Ave. and E. 198th St in Bedford Park when they got into a fight Saturday night, police said.
Their fight spilled out onto the street, where Arnold Oliver, 24, allegedly shot 28-year-old Jamal Smith in the face about 11 p.m., cops said. The shot man’s outraged friends then jumped the gunman, cops said.
Smith’s brother Wayne, also 28, managed to get the gunman’s weapon away from him and shot him in the chest with it, according to police.
The Smith brothers were born 10 months apart and Wayne Smith turned 28 Saturday, the day of the slayings, police sources said. The brothers are from New Rochelle, Westchester County, while Oliver lived in Peekskill, also in Westchester, according to cops.
Videos from the scene show a man brutally stomping one of the wounded victims as he’s sprawled out next to another car.
Another man can be seen cradling the other victim, screaming at police, “Don’t f-----g touch him!”
“This s—t sounds like a whole movie,” said a worker at a nearby deli who saw the violence unfold. “This is a whole movie scene. This happens every other day. It’s gunfights every time, Man.”
The deli worker, who gave only his first name, Prince, said the men were attending a baby shower in a second-floor event space above his store.
“They were definitely drunk off their a-s, drunk basically and started arguing,” he said. “When you’re drunk with a firearm, you don’t think straight.”
Medics rushed both wounded men to St. Barnabas Hospital, but neither survived.
Wayne Smith was taken into custody and charged with murder and weapon possession, police said.
He was held without bail following an arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court.
Police on Sunday released a surveillance images of another man involved in the fight and are asking anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.
Prince said he’s used to hearing about violence a couple of blocks away his store, but not right outside .
“I’m surprised it happened right here,” he said. “But it could’ve happened everywhere as long as there is a party. Alcohol, people aren’t in their right mind.”
With Thomas Tracy
