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This is a pretty crazy time to be a teenager in the Bronx. Another adolescent was gunned down this weekend — this time fatally — with a bullet meant for someone else.

Yesterday, the funeral of 13-year-old Kevin Miller was held in a Jamaica church, a week after he was hit by a stray bullet from gang gunfire. Queens DA Richard Brown also announced that a second suspected Crips gang member was arrested for Miller's murder, "This case is another example of the mindless gun-related violence and street gang mentality that turns our streets into battlefields and too often takes innocent lives and recklessly endangers public safety."

Police have arrested 24-year-old Terrance Villanueva and charged him with second degree murder and weapons possession after a shootout in Bushwick Friday led to the death of an innocent bystander, 44-year-old Jesselle Page. Villanueva allegedly has prior gun and drug arrests and police are searching for the other suspect who shot back at him. Jesselle Page is said to have immediately leapt up to protect her 8-year-old grandnephew when the gunfire began and amazingly kept running with the boy in her arms after she had been shot and was badly losing blood. The News calls her "an absolutely magnificent figure amidst the total horror that so suddenly invaded a perfect summer afternoon." The paper goes on to tell about the 8-year-old calling his mother on the way to pick him up and leaving the message, "Auntie dead!"

A shootout in Bushwick yesterday afternoon left a woman dead—an innocent bystander who was watching her 8-year-old nephew play nearby. 44-year-old Jesselle Page was shot in the upper torso around 4:45 p.m. when two men began firng at one another as she was walking into her housing project on Moore Street. A neighbor told the News, "The blood was all over the floor." Page was rushed to Woodhull Hospital where she was pronounced dead. The Post reports that in nearby South Williamsburg yesterday another shooting at a children's birthday party at South Second and Havemeyer streets left a young mother injured.

The family of the 15-year-old girl who was fatally shot in front of a Queens housing project says they had moved out of the project to escape the violence. Brandon Bethea was killed late Saturday night when she was visiting friends at the Redfern Houses; she had been dancing with friends in a courtyard.