The grieving family of a Bronx teenager who was senselessly shot dead by a stray bullet while walking home from school celebrated her 18th birthday on Wednesday — at her grave.
Angellyh Yambo’s kin gathered at Woodlawn Cemetery with colorful balloons and flowers to mark what would have been the promising teen’s coming-of-age day in a bittersweet celebration.
“She would be looking at colleges,” Angelly’s mom, Yanely Henriquez, told The Post.
“She wanted to be a doctor,” she said. “I would have had a party for her but since it’s on a school day it would have been on a Saturday. We would go shopping. We would have a chocolate and vanilla cake — her favorite… The birthday girl will not be there but we are celebrating no matter what.”
The somber ceremony included festive birthday balloons, gold-colored inflatable numbers 1 and 8, a teddy bear with Angellyh’s name, and flowers — all attached to the teenager’s gravestone.
The teen was walking home from University Prep Charter School in the Bronx on April 8, 2022, when she was struck in the back by a stray bullet from a ghost gun fired by 17-year-old Jeremiah Ryan.
Ryan was gunning for a group of suspected gang members he had gotten into a beef with — and instead killed Angellyh and wounded two other teenagers, according to police.
Cops said the troubled teen fired off six rounds from a 9 mm Polymer 80 ghost gun — weapons that can be bought piecemeal online and assembled, making them virtually untraceable.
Police said Ryan had also been helping local gangbangers stash illegal guns since he was 12 years old, and was busted after he was nabbed tossing the murder weapon from a fourth-story window.
Adding insult to injury, Ryan last year cut a sweet deal with prosecutors for the minimum murder sentence of 15 years to life rather than the max of 25 to life in the teen’s slaying.
“We have to make sure we keep him there for life,” Henriquez said this week. “He killed her but he still has life, he is still breathing. He can still speak to his family, he can see them.
“My daughter? In a cement hole,” she said. “I can’t touch her. “
“[We] go to the cemetery with balloons and I will be there talking to her and then I will leave her in a cold cement hole and go home,” she added.