A Bronx teen who was always the life of the party was killed in a blaze of bullets on a subway train early yesterday after a dispute between two groups of youths at a drunken bash, police said.
Three of his pals were wounded.
Rayquon Story, 19, and his friends were riding the elevated No. 5 train between East 180th Street and Dyre Avenue at 2:30 a.m. when the shooter – also with three buddies – announced, “You know what’s up,” police sources said.
As horrified passengers watched, that youth suddenly pulled out a gun and fired six or seven shots at Rayquon and his friends, the sources said. Terrified fellow straphangers didn’t move until the train stopped at Dyre Avenue, where the shooter, wearing tan and yellow shorts, and his friends got off, the sources said.
“It was a horrifying ride,” said a police source.
When cops arrived, Rayquon was dead, a 20-year-old friend was shot in the abdomen, a 22-year-old pal was wounded in the forearm, and an 18-year-old was hit in the pinky.
The three injured men were taken to Our Lady of Mercy Hospital in stable condition. The first two were later transferred to Jacobi Hospital, while the 18-year-old was treated and then handed over to cops for questioning, authorities said.
Police and relatives said the shooting resulted from a dispute between the two groups of teens at the party.
The dead young man had a criminal record, as do his three wounded buddies, police said.
Tornette Story, 37, Rayquon’s mother, who is pregnant and has a 13-year-old daughter, said her son liked to be the life of the party.
“He was a jokester,” she said.
“I feel lost,” she added, breaking down in tears. “He was my only son.”
She said that before Rayquon left for the party, she made him promise to be home by 3 a.m.
But shortly before that time, she got a call from a relative saying Rayquan had been shot.
When she got to the Dyre Avenue station, she found her son lying in a pool of blood, his body covered by a sheet.
“He was a good son,” she said through tears.
Robert Brown, an uncle of one victim, said he was horrified at the violence. “They walked on the train, they shot them, and they walked off – that’s all I know,” he said.
Additional reporting by Peter Cox