> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://bklyner.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Roundup: Brighton Beach Bloodshed "Over A Glance" - URL: https://bklyner.com/roundup-brighton-beach-bloodshed-over-a-glance-sheepshead-bay/ - Published: 2011-06-10T13:55:48.000Z - Updated: 2011-06-10T13:55:48.000Z - Author: Ned Berke - Tags: bright 6th st, homicides, murders, #API-Imported ![Tysha Jones was a junior at Norman Thomas High School and lived in a Harlem apartment with her mother, Cynthia, her brother and sister, according to friends.](http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2011/06/11/alg_tysha_jones.jpg) One of the last photos taken of Tysha Jones, taken shortly before a gunman took her life. (Source: Twitter via DailyNews.com) The [Brighton Beach shooting on the Riegelmann Boardwalk](/update-five-people-shot-on-brighton-beach-boardwalk/) yesterday evening left one 16-year-old girl dead and four others wounded. The shooting erupted around 6:20 p.m., with the gunman firing wildly into the air and crowd. Now, a person involved in the incident is telling the New York Post that it all happened after unsuspecting teenagers threw a wayward glance at alleged Crip gangbangers walking by. The [New York Post](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/blood%5Fon%5Fthe%5Fboardwalk%5FvWg8xsBCuS2sUc8IprKxaL?ref=bklyner.com) reports: > “It was a bad combination of guns, heat, beer and angry young men,” a police source said, pointing to empty Olde English malt-liquor bottles littering the area. > The mayhem began at around 5:20 p.m. when two cousins said they walked past some Crips and looked at the gang bangers the wrong way. > “It was all over a glance,” the 22-year-old man told The Post. > “We just looked back, and they started shooting.” > … said the man, who insisted that neither he nor his cousin have any gang affiliation. The [Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny%5Fcrime/2011/06/10/2011-06-10%5Fbrighton%5Fbeach%5Fboardwalk%5Fshooting%5Ftysha%5Fjones%5Fkilled%5Ffor%5Fenjoying%5Fa%5Fday%5Fat%5Fthe%5Fb.html?ref=bklyner.com#ixzz1Ost46Arf) tells us more about deceased 16-year-old Tysha Jones: > “Tysha got killed for enjoying a day at the beach,” a devastated family friend, Glenda Farr, said Friday morning. > “She was so excited about graduating from high school and going to college. > “Everyone around here loved her.” > Jones was a junior at Norman Thomas High School and lived in a Harlem apartment with her mother, Cynthia, her brother and sister, according to friends. > She was often seen walking around the neighborhood with the family’s two dogs, Sam and Goldie. > Outside her building, a makeshift memorial has been set up with candles, a teddy bear and handwritten notes from loved ones. > Farr said Jones pleaded with her mother to go to the beach and headed to Brighton Beach with friends Thursday afternoon. > “\[Tysha\] begged and begged her mother until finally she let her go,” Farr explained. > “Now she’s dead.” In another article, [Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny%5Fcrime/2011/06/09/2011-06-09%5Ffour%5Fshot%5Fon%5Fbrooklyns%5Fbright%5Fbeach%5Fboardwalk%5Ftwo%5Fcritically%5Finjured%5Fwhen%5Fgunman.html?ref=bklyner.com#ixzz1OsugDGTo) describes how the gunman fired wildly into the air and crowd: > A gunman squeezed off about eight rounds, first shooting in the air before aiming at the brawling crowd, cops and witnesses said. > … Beckett – a father of 2-year-old twins, a boy and a girl – was hit in his ankle and elbow during the wild shooting. > A 21-year-old Bronx woman who is eight months pregnant said she was 30 feet from the gunfire and feared for her life. > “I got nervous,” said the woman, who declined to give her name > “At the moment, you don’t know where he was going to shoot,” she added. “I left my sandals. I left everything. I could have fell on my stomach – I could have gotten shot.” > One stray bullet pierced through the window of an elderly woman’s apartment as she sat in front of her TV, witnesses said. > The bullet whizzed through the sixth-floor apartment of Marion Smith, 84, but didn’t hit her, said a security guard at the building. The Daily News is also reporting that a group of men were detained for questioning after the incident, but no charges have been filed yet.