5 TEENS ARRESTED FOR ACCIDENTLY SHOOTING A BRONX GIRL IN THE HEAD!

Cops busted three more suspects, including a 16-year-old boy believed to be the gunman, in the stray-bullet shooting of a bright-eyed Bronx girl.
The arrests early Wednesday bring to five the number of suspects held in the senseless shooting that began with a jailhouse beatdown. Each of the suspects - they're all from the Bronx - has been charged with attempted murder, assault and criminal use of a firearm.

Police identified the suspected shooter as Carvette Gentile, 16. Also in custody at the 42nd Precinct stationhouse in Morrisania were Rohan Franis, 18; Cleve Smith, 20; Clivie Smith, 19; and Dwayne Taylor, 23.

Vada Vasquez, 15, was still in critical condition at Lincoln Hospital. Before heading to the hospital, the girl's sister celebrated the arrest.

"They got him!" Mandy Boodram, 33, hollered. "They got the shooter! Oh my God, they got him!"

Boodram looked down at the front page of the Daily News and was brought to tears by the sight of her little sister's face.

"That's our beautiful girl," Boodram said before calling her mother to tell her about the new arrests. "She's so pretty and strong. Look at her. She's going to make it. I just know it."

Investigators on Tuesday said the shooting started with a brawl on Rikers Island that had nothing to do with girl.

"We believe the shooting was retaliation to a beating that was given by someone who is in Rikers," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. "There's still way too many guns on the street. It underscores the glaring lack of a national gun control policy."

Vada and a friend were on their way home Monday from her school, Bronx Latin in Morrisania, when a hooded gunman on a bike began firing at Tyrone Creighton.

Bullets struck Creighton's torso and leg. A stray shot pierced the back of Vada's head, shattering inside her skull, sources said.

The attack came after one of Creighton's brothers was involved in an assault on a fellow jailbird. The bloodied inmate then sent word to his pals on the outside to seek revenge against Creighton, Kelly said. "The indiscriminate shooting" led to "terrible collateral consequences," Kelly said.

Vada was put in a medically induced coma after surgery to remove bullet fragments from the inside of her skull, relatives said.

"I've been crying so much tears, you didn't even know you had that many tears," Vada's sister Allison Boodram said Tuesday. "She's still the same. No changes yet. She's fighting."

Boodram, 28, said doctors are trying to keep the swelling down in her brain and already warned the family that Vada might have speech and memory problems.

"I just hope they catch who did it," Boodram said. "I don't know how they can sleep at night knowing what they did to this little girl.

"Out of all the people there, why her? It always happens to thegood kids, the ones who don't deserve it."

Mayor Bloomberg implored all New Yorkers to keep the critically injured girl in their thoughts.

"It's a terrible tragedy, and I would just like to ask all New Yorkers to send their thoughts and prayers to
Lincoln Hospital and pray for Vada Vasquez," Bloomberg said. "Hopefully, she'll find some way to pull through this."

Seven New Yorkers have been killed by errant bullets this year - three of them teenagers.
Creighton has two brothers at Rikers, Dior and Kenneth, who are awaiting trial in the 2006 murder of a Bronx man.

At the family's Harlem apartment, another Creighton brother, Moe, said he knew nothing about a fight at Rikers involving his brothers.

"We can't verify that," Moe Creighton said. "We're praying for the little girl. We hope she pulls through."

Tyrone Creighton, 19, was in stable condition at Lincoln Hospital. He was out on the street after being charged with attempted murder in connection with a Bronx shooting in July.

Creighton was released on bail; his lawyer, Martin Galvin, said he expects the charges to be dropped. Officials refused to comment.

The youngest of five sisters, Vada was described as a fiercely independent artist obsessed with the metal band Slipknot.

"She's just very, very original," sister Mandy Boodram, 33, said. "She wears her Slipknot stuff loud and proud."

About 50 people gathered outside the shooting scene on Home St. last night, chanting, "Stop the violence" and
"No more guns."

Earlier, a small group of Vada's neighbors met outside her Soundview home to pray for her recovery.

"She was just an innocent person standing there," said neighbor Wayne Ambros, 27. "She wasn't involved in anything. How could she be a victim to such senseless violence?"