Baby-faced gang caught on video turning NYC streets into shooting gallery as schoolkids, families run for cover

A baby-faced street gang turned a city neighborhood into “a shooting gallery,’’ sending terrified schoolkids scrambling for their lives and stunned bystanders diving under city buses for safety in brazen broad-daylight attacks, authorities said Thursday.Shocking footage released by the NYPD captured members of the “800 YGz” crew wantonly shooting up playgrounds and city streets crowded with families during a recent turf war that terrorized the West Farms neighborhood.“They allegedly threatened the lives of schoolchildren, shoppers, along with anyone who walked down the street in daytime, violating the basic right to be safe,” Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark said at a press conference announcing a slew of heinous charges against 20 accused members of the drug-peddling gang.“These defendants allegedly shot at rival gangs without any regard for the innocent bystanders caught in between them in the line of fire,” said Clark, who was accompanied by NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Mayor Eric Adams.“This conspiracy of violence turned the West Farms neighborhood into a shooting gallery.”The gang was behind 14 separate shootings dating to 2023 that left one rival dead, two others wounded and dozens of innocent New Yorkers ducking for their lives, according to a 73-count indictment unsealed by cops and prosecutors and involving a 2-1/2-year investigation.One of the suspects involved in the execution was 15 years old at the time, authorities said.Half of the alleged gangbangers — who go by nicknames such as “Nesty,” “Chapo” and “Africa” — were mere teenagers when they pulled the trigger without regard for innocent bystanders, officials said.In one caught-on-video shooting Aug.28, 2023, two of the teens opened fire at 2:55 pm just steps away from a couple and their three young children, forcing the stricken youngsters to take cover behind their parents.A few months earlier, on April 1, 2023, the gang unleashed a barrage of bulle...