The bereft mom of a 14-year-old boy stabbed to death in a Bronx playground wept Monday as her son’s alleged killers walked into court.
Ramona Hernandez de Mendoza — whose ninth-grader Angel Mendoza was killed simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, according to cops — sobbed so loudly that one of four youths charged in his murder looked at her several times over his shoulder.
The suspect, 18-year-old Jordan Williams, and fellow accused killer Andrew Ansah, 18, both waived their testimony in front of a grand jury, moving the case one step closer to a potential trial centered around a bloodthirsty brawl last week in Norwood’s Williamsbridge Oval Playground.
“Today … began the war of justice,” Mendoza’s father, Miguel Mendoza, told reporters outside the courtroom.
“We are hoping that the judges take into consideration that everyone who participated in this act of violence will pay for it. Because this was not a criminal from the street, this was not a kid from the street, this was a boy.”
Ansah, Williams and two minors — boys ages 15 and 16 — ruthlessly pistol-whipped, beat and stabbed Mendoza as revenge for an earlier slashing that he wasn’t involved in, sources have said.
The victim, a kind teen who loved basketball, reggaeton and rap, was simply in the wrong place when the group descended on the park, sources said.
His senseless death stunned the neighborhood and left his family shattered — but the hearing made clear his alleged killers aren’t without supporters.
At least eight people, seemingly family members, blew kisses and yelled, “We love you!” as Williams walked into the courtroom.
Ansah had five supporters in the courtroom— all teenagers — who uttered, “Free you” as he made his own entrance.
The supportive sentiments left Mendoza’s family very upset.
“Are you f–king kidding me?” a relative said.
Ansah and Williams are due back in court Aug. 27.