BRONX MAN, HIS SON AND TEEN INDICTED IN RETALIATORY SHOOTING THAT KILLED WRONG MAN

 

Victim Murdered In Car He Recently Bought From Defendants’ Target

Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark today announced that a Bronx father, son and a teenage boy have been indicted on second-degree Murder and other related charges for acting in concert to fatally shoot a man. 

District Attorney Clark said, “The defendants sought revenge after one of them got into a shootout with a man in August. They allegedly hunted for the man, found his car, and opened fire. The man they killed was not their intended target. He was new owner of the car. This was a senseless murder.” 

District Attorney Clark said defendant Norman Moore, 64, of Olinville Avenue, was arraigned on November 18, 2025, on second-degree Murder, first-degree Manslaughter, two counts of second-degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon and Criminal Possession of a Firearm before Bronx Supreme Court Justice George Villegas. He was remanded and is due back in court on January 20, 2026. His son, Devonte Moore, 24, of Olinville Avenue will be arraigned on the charges at a later date. A 16-year-old boy was arraigned on the charges on November 5, 2025, and is due in court on February 18, 2026.

According to the investigation, on October 7, 2025, at approximately 4:47 p.m., Norman Moore allegedly drove his son to pick up the 16-year-old boy and then went to 3254 White Plains Road. Surveillance footage shows the teen getting out of the car and firing a gun multiple times into a Volkswagen Passat. The occupant of the vehicle, Fareed Adeyi, 26, was shot in the torso and right thigh and died.

The incident is believed to be retaliation for a shooting on August 23, 2025, that allegedly involved Devonte Moore. He allegedly shot a man near 3544 White Plains Road, and that man returned fire, hitting Devonte Moore several times, critically wounding him. 

Devonte Moore was indicted on Attempted Murder in the second degree, first-degree Assault, two counts of second-degree Criminal Possession of a Weapon, and Criminal Possession of a Firearm in that incident. 

The Volkswagen Passat was previously owned by the person Devonte Moore is accused of shooting in the August 23, 2025, incident. The car was recently sold, and the victim was mistakenly targeted.

District Attorney Clark thanked NYPD Detectives Rashawn Merrick and Michael Simpson of the 47th Precinct, and Detective Kyle Keiser of Bronx Homicide Squad for their work on the investigation. 

An indictment is an accusatory instrument and not proof of a defendant’s guilt.