eyewitness news reporter josh einiger is in copiague where hundreds of people came together tonight. josh? >> reporter: it was a gathering that grew on social media and wound up on the other side of the crime scene here. police right now still trying to piece together exactly how this started, but they say this 18-year-old was shot once in the chest accidentally by his friend. hours after their sudden loss several hundred high school students stood in stark disbelief steps from where crime scene investigators were still searching for clues in tore -- death of their friend wilson gill torres. >> i burst into tears instantly. it was horrible for me. he was such a good guy, too. >> he wasn't like. this he was going to just grow up, play baseball and everything. that's basically what he did. i never knew this would have been him. i never expected it. >> reporter: police announced an death in the high school senior. his friend 18-year-old neffy reyes charged with second degree manslaughter after sources say he showed off a gun and accidentally fired it around lunchtime on great neck road

the teena rs were looking at a weapon in a home in copiague when the gun fir killing torres. reyes did call police immediately after that shooting. >>> now to a news 4 exclusive. a mother speaking only tt news 4 out then horrifying moment bullets flew into her car with two babies inside. dthe mother told natalie pasquarella how she protected her kitds. >> i just thank god that we're good. >> reporter: this queens mother is holding her thmo, h-old by boy extra tight. she didt wanteao show her face or her child's as she descr ed pick up her sister-in-law in eens. gunfire erupted, windows shattered. >> i saw the bullet coming wards the car and i just ducked over both of the kids. i flipped over the whole car seat over me like over them. i just laid there and heard the glass shatter over my head. >> reporter: she looked up to make sure her baby, 1-year-old niece, and mother-in-law were okay. her mother-in-law miriam was driving making a turn from beach 54th street when police say someone fired several times from a nearby roof hitting two othth cars as well. >> thank god okay. the