Cops arrested a 17-year-old girl for the brutal slaying of a 16-year-old girl at a Bronx deli that’s believed to have stemmed from an ongoing bullying dispute, the Daily News learned Wednesday.
The 17-year-old was slapped with charges of murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon for the gruesome Tuesday afternoon slaying of Aliyah Williams, who was knifed throughout her head and body inside Deli Grocery around 3:56 p.m. Tuesday near Mickle Ave. and Boston Road. in Williamsbridge, police said.
“I want her to go to prison, no parole, nothing, she has to pay for my daughter’s life. She can rot in hell,” said the victim’s mother Chauntee Rhone, 38, who is a hospital worker.
According to police sources, the attack was believed to have been sparked by an “ongoing beef.” One of the girls followed the other into the store and a dispute unfolded. The victim then threw water at the attacker, enraging her, culminating in the horrific stabbing, the sources said.
“How could someone not intervene, how could someone not do anything while someone was stabbing,” Sonia Rhoden, 67, the teen’s maternal grandmother said. “People saw the killing and they walked by; New York have no compassion, people are cold.”
The 17-year-old was picked up three hours after the incident. Her arraignment at Bronx Criminal Court was pending Wednesday. Police are not releasing her name because she is a minor.
A premed student who was working at Upcake Supplies And Treat Shop right by the crime scene called 911 when the incident happened and rushed over to aid Aliyah, helped by a co-worker.
“And then I look at the window, see the girl bleeding,” said the teen, who wanted to be unnamed. “When I saw the blood, I knew she got hit [in] one of her arteries.”
The youth said he noticed another man who was putting pressure around the teen’s neck.
“Then she was gargling a lot of blood out,” he recalled. “So I couldn’t hear her to make a word. But one of my co-workers told me that they heard her saying, ‘Call the ambulance,’ out loud, and it’s because I think her adrenaline was rushing in,” he said. “Then when I get there, she’s trying to move. She’s, like, ‘I need help. I need help.’
In the wake of the vicious attack, a huge pool of blood was left trailing outside the store.
EMS rushed the teen to Jacobi Medical Center, where she died of her injuries.
The victim’s mother said by the time she got to the hospital, Aliyah had no pulse and doctors couldn’t bring her back.
Aliyah lived just a few blocks away from where she was killed, cops said.
“Why did she have to stab her so many times, I couldn’t believe what I saw when I viewed her body, she stabbed her even in her eyes, it was horrible,” Rhoden said.
Aliyah was in the 11th grade and loved music and dancing, the mother said.
“I’m devastated, my body is shaking,” Rhone said. “Aliyah would never have bothered anyone unless she was provoked.”
It wasn’t immediately clear from sources which of the two girls was being bullied.
“She wasn’t a bad kid. She was a peaceful person, she gave of her heart,” the victim’s grandmother, Rose Anderson, said at the crime scene Tuesday evening. “May her soul rest in peace.”
“She texted me today — she asked me for $10 for food,” she said. “That was the last time I heard from her.”
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at (800) 577-TIPS (8477).
Originally Published: July 16, 2025 at 5:14 PM EDT
