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Waldo Mejia was arrested in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024, according to New York City police records.<\/p>\n

But he was out on the street Friday when 14-year-old Caleb Rijos was stabbed to death in the Bronx while walking to school, according to the New York Post.<\/a><\/p>\n

Mejia, 29, was arrested for the crime<\/a> Saturday with NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch noting that there was little to smile about.<\/p>\n

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\u201cToday, a 14-year old-boy is dead. A family is devastated. A city is in mourning, and the systems that we have in place to deal with repeat offenders and individuals with severe mental health issues continue to fail us,\u201d Tisch said.<\/p>\n

After being stabbed<\/a> twice in the chest, Rijos called his father<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, he called his father and told his father that he couldn\u2019t breathe and that he was scared, and his father heard him dying,\u201d\u00a0Bronx District Attorney\u00a0Darcel Clark\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unfathomable to think about the level of this tragedy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mejia was arrested by police on a knife charge in 2015, and a gun charge in 2017, before facing burglary and arson charges in 2019 after the lobby of a former girlfriend\u2019s building was set on fire. The 2019 charges were pleaded down to reckless endangerment, and Mejia was handed a conditional discharge<\/p>\n

Charges against Mejia did not end there.<\/p>\n

In November, he was charged with stabbing a Ring doorbell camera. Tisch said Mejia was released on his own recognizance, noting that crime was not one where Mejia could have been locked up and required to post bail.<\/p>\n

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\nWaldo Mejia, aged 29, Arrested for Stabbing Death of 14-year-old Caleb Rijos<\/p>\n

The Bronx man, identified as Waldo Mejia, who is accused of the murder of the 14-year-old, is also suspected of slashing this 38-year-old man.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe status quo is just not working for New Yorkers,\u201d\u00a0Tisch said Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not have a system that puts the rights and needs of victims first. And my message to New Yorkers is something has to give,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Tisch said once again New York City faces the \u201cbrutal, unprovoked killing of a 14-year-old child by a career criminal or recidivist over and over again, with [a severe] history of mental health interactions with the NYPD.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow many times [does] the mayor have to keep talking about this before something changes? I\u2019m hopeful something will change. Let this be a call to action,\u201d Tisch said.<\/p>\n

On Sunday Jan. 5, five days before Rijos was killed, a 38-year-old man was stabbed at a subway<\/a> station \u2014 a crime police have linked to Mejia.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the course of this homicide investigation, an officer assigned to the Transit Bureau recognized that the suspect in this murder looked very similar to another perpetrator that had committed a stabbing on East 138th Street on the subway stairs,\u201d NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny said, according to WABC-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Tisch said that when Mejia was arrested, he was \u201cwearing the same sneakers and pants he wore during the homicide, and he was in possession of a bloody knife,\u201d according to CBS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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