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VIA NY DAILY NEWS

A 15-year-old Connecticut boy visiting family in the Bronx was killed early yesterday in what police believe was a random drive-by shooting.

Tashawn Bromfield was sipping on a Slurpee and sitting in a Fenton Ave. courtyard with a friend when a four-door sedan tore around the corner. A gunman leaned out the passenger-side window and opened fire, police said.

Two bullets ripped through the night air – and one struck Tashawn in the chest, police and witnesses said.

‘He was on the ground bleeding everywhere,’ said Marva Fletcher, who is dating Tashawn’s father. She ran outside when the shots rang out about 12:40 a.m.

‘I was in bed when I heard the shots and then I hear his friend screaming, ‘Tashawn’s been shot!” said a hysterical Fletcher, 40. ‘We ran out but it was too late.’

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Detectives were still trying late yesterday to figure out what led to the slaying – part of another bloody night of violence in the Bronx.

Investigators were exploring whether the teen – described by a detective as ‘a good kid’ – was a victim of mistaken identity or whether he was shot as part of a Bloods gang initiation, law enforcement sources said.

‘There’s no words to express my feelings – no words,’ said the victim’s father, Basil Bromfield.

Tashawn, a high school junior who played football and basketball, lived in Meriden, Conn., but spent Friday visiting his father in Mount Vernon and some friends in the Bronx, his family said.

‘I can’t believe this happened,’ said the slain teen’s mother, Dionne Johnson-Russell, at her family’s suburban home.

‘He went to go see his dad,’ she sobbed, barely able to speak, ‘and they shot him in the chest.’