Devastated mom of 11-year-old girl killed by stray bullet confronts her baby-faced murderers in court: Do you feel any remorse?

The devastated mother of an 11-year-old girl killed by a stray bullet outside a Bronx nail salon begged her killers for answers in court Wednesday — as one of the teen thugs was hit with a 10-year sentence.Yanisha Gomez said in an emotional statement in Bronx Supreme Court that the pain of losing little Kyhara Tay in the senseless 2022 shooting remains fresh three years later.

“This nightmare I do not wish upon anyone,” Gomez snapped at the baby-faced killers.“A mother should never feel this pain.

An innocent child should never be taken away from a mother like this.I want to ask y’all, ‘Do you feel any remorse, regret, shame, guilt?” “Because your intentions was to take another young teen and y’all ended up taking a soul who appreciated life and loved God,” she said.

“Y’all denied her the opportunity to graduate, to be in love and to live life.Y’all took away all of her dreams.”Matthew Godwin, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison as part of a plead deal Wednesday, was just 15 when he and then-18-year-old Omar Bojang rode up on a moped gunning for a 13-year-old boy on May 16, 2022 — but hit Kyhara instead, prosecutors said.

She was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.The gun-toting teens, who were caught on security camera footage, were later arrested and arraigned on second-degree murder charges on June 3, 2022, and have since been held behind bars.“I am so sorry for what I have done and the pain I’ve caused you,” Godwin told Gomez in court Wednesday.“I’m also very disappointed in myself and the pain I have caused you.

I take full responsibility for my action.”“As I got older, I realized I took the life of an 11-year-old innocent young girl,” he said.“At nights, I cry myself to sleep, knowing what I’ve done.

Not a day goes by when I do not feel regret and remorse.”They both pleaded guilty last month in exchange for agreed-to sentences, with Godwin getting 10 years and Bojang expected ...