Gone too soon: in less than a year, 4 city schoolchildren were killed near the school

Leaving school has become a dangerous activity for city schoolchildren: in the past year alone, three have been fatally injured and one has been stabbed while on leave.

Angellyh Yambo, 16 years old

In April, an honors student from the Bronx was walking home from a university charter high school when she was killed by a stray bullet about a block from the school. Jeremiah Ryan, 17, allegedly fired a fatal shot with a ghost pistol as part of a conflict with a suspected gang. Two more teenagers were injured.

Unique Smith, 15

A boy was sitting on a bench in McLaughlin Park in downtown Brooklyn in September, just after graduation, when two masked attackers approached him, asked him about his gang affiliation, shot him in the stomach and fled. There was no indication that the Brooklyn Lab Charter School student was in the gang, police said. Wesley Walker, 16, was arrested earlier this month and charged with Smith’s murder.

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Mark Green, 18

Greene was standing at a bus stop outside North Queens Community High School in Kew Gardens Hills around 3:00 p.m. when he was suddenly shot to death in November. The school was closed after a shooting that police said could be linked to a gang. One suspect, 18-year-old Michael Raleigh, was charged with possession of a weapon in connection with Green’s death.

Nihim Wright, 17

Wright was chased by a group of six attackers in January just after 3 p.m. in Coney Island and fatally shot in a parking lot across the street from an elementary school in what sources say was a fight over a girl. His twin brother witnessed the fatal abuse that happened about a mile from K728 Liberation Diploma Plus High School, where Wright was a senior. Thrashon Jones, 13, was charged with murder after Wright’s death.