Girl, 15, fatally shot in Queens apartment was play wrestling with friend before gun fired

 

A pair of 15-year-olds playfighting with a loaded gun left one of them dead and the other being questioned by police, authorities and witnesses said Saturday.
Wilta Wordsworth, who stayed home from school on Friday, had invited a pair of boys over to her Queens apartment to hang out.
She was play wrestling with one of the boys when he pulled a gun and blasted her in the head by accident, Nia Skrine, the doomed girl’s friend said Saturday.
“He was scared. He just kept saying he didn’t mean to. It was an accident,” said Nia, 15, who had slept over Wilta’s Far Rockaway apartment the night before and witnessed the tragedy.
Wilta’s mother Miata Teague, 39, was inconsolable when reached by phone Saturday.
“She was very good, I don’t know what went wrong.” she said, sobbing uncontrollably.
“I am angry because people are walking around with guns. All kinds of people on the street have guns”.

 

The horror unfolded just after noon Friday inside Wilta’s seventh-floor apartment on Collier Ave., officials said.
Wilta, who also went by the nickname Taya, skipped school Friday to avoid a fight, Skrine said. Wilta’s mother was at work, so she decided to invite two boys, both 15, over, according to Nia.
“She let them in,” Nia said. “(Wilta and the shooter) were play fighting and he just pulled it out and he shot her.”
“I couldn't believe it,” Nia added. “I kept touching her and she wouldn't wake up.”
Nia, still dressed only in her undergarments from the sleepover, ran out of the apartment and began pounding on neighbors’ doors for help.
“She came to ask to use my phone to call the police,” said building super German Tejata.