A Bronx teen was charged with killing a college student who was trying to protect his little brother in a fight over 50 cents. Cops said Dasheem Campbell was among a group of young men who tried to rob 16-year-old Steven Hernandez near an Allerton deli on Monday night. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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Steven and Willmer Hernandez, 20, were at the store to buy food for a planned trip on Wednesday to Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla. The ring of punks demanded 50 cents from Steven and Willmer intervened.
The older brother, who worked at Red Lobster and attended Borough of Manhattan Community College, was shot three times in the midsection just after 11 p.m. Emergency workers took him from Mace Ave. to Jacobi Medical Center where he died.
Campbell, 19, lives in the Pelham Parkway Houses – just six blocks away from the Hernandez brothers. He was charged with murder.
Relatives of the victim and the suspect were grappling with the murder and the arrest.
Through the door at the suspect’s apartment,
A man who wouldn’t identify himself said through the door of Campbell’s apartment: “No words. No words. It’s too hard on his mother’s heart.”
A police source said Campbell has a sealed juvenile record and more recent arrests for grand larcency and robbery.
“I know his family. They all work and go to school. He’s got a sister in college,” said Campbell’s neighbor Mildred Ramos, 60. “I’ve never seen him in trouble. I’m surprised he would do a bad thing.”
Meanwhile, members of the victim’s family were making funeral arrangements.
“I just hope he gets what he deserves,” Hernandez’s friend, Jasmin Garcia, 22, said of the suspect. “But nothing is going to bring Will back.”
