A Gambian teenager has been arrested in New York’s Bronx neighborhood over the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old girl. 

Omar Bojang, 18, turned himself in to police on Monday following last week’s fatal shooting.

New York Police Department said they believed Bojang was driving the moped from which his passenger, aged 15, allegedly fired a gun in an attempt to harm a 13-year-old boy. 

Instead of striking the boy, a bullet struck 11-year-old Kyhara Tay, they said.

Police are recommending charges of murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon for Bojang, though it’s unclear what charges will be filed by the Bronx District Attorney’s Office, CNN reports.

The 15-year-old suspect was arrested Friday without incident at a hotel in the Bronx, NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig said. 

The teenager and his mother had booked the room the night before, he said.

The 15-year-old faces charges of murder in the second degree, first-degree manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree, Essig said.

The shooting unfolded last Monday just before 5 p.m., authorities have said. Kyhara was hit in her abdomen and died later that night at a hospital. 

The fatal shooting comes as New York grapples with an uptick of gun violence that has reached even the city’s youngest. 

In January, a stray bullet hit an 11-month old girl in the face while she was sitting with her mother in a parked car on a Bronx street.