A teen was fatally shot and three other people struck by gunfire – including a woman delivering slushies – when a Bronx car meet-up devolved into chaos over the weekend, authorities and sources said.
Werling Mendez, 18, was killed by a bullet to the head during the violence-wracked gathering – which was part of a social-media-fueled street-showdown trend – around 5:40 a.m. Sunday on East 233rd Street near Boston Road in Eastchester, cops said.
More than 60 shell casings were recovered at the scene, according to the sources.
Mendez, who lived about 3 miles away in Olinville, was rushed to BronxCare Health System, where he succumbed to his injuries, police said Monday.
A 22-year-old man also was shot in the chest, and two women – ages 20 and 25 – were each blasted in the foot, according to authorities and sources.
The older woman was delivering slushies for a local business when she was shot, according to law-enforcement sources.
Those victims were hospitalized in stable condition, police said.
No arrests had been made by Monday, and no suspect information was available. It also remains unclear who was targeted in the shooting.
A 37-year-old woman was also robbed of her cell phone and a diamond chain during the fracas, the sources said.
She was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where she was in stable condition, according to authorities.
The violent gathering happened about four months after reckless drivers turned a Queens street into a danger zone in mid-April.
Footage from that car meet-up – at Eliot Avenue and 69th Street along the Maspeth-Middle Village border – shows a brazen motorist apparently waving a Palestinian flag as he burned rubber.
The driver narrowly missed those standing nearby while the car made donuts around a ring of fire in the middle of the street.
Two men also jumped on the hood of a marked department vehicle during the mayhem, cracking its windshield and causing other damage, before speeding off in a black Nissan, police said at the time.
Two people were arrested in connection to that incident – with both since released in court on non-bail-eligible charges.
At the time, the NYPD said the mayhem won’t stop unless the perpetrators face significant consequences.
“These car meets will not go away unless there are real repercussions in the criminal justice system,” a department rep said in a statement. “The NYPD will continue to dedicate significant resources to stop these dangerous and reckless events.”
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