A 15-year-old boy died after being shot in the stomach in a downtown Brooklyn park yesterday minutes after leaving school, the New York police said.
Authorities received a call reporting the shooting around 1: 43 pm on Wednesday at the vicinity of Tillary and Jay streets of McLaughlin Park. When NYPD arrived on the scene they found the teen shot. He was taken to Methodist Hospital in critical condition and was later pronounced dead.
According to witnesses, two men approached the adolescent who was sitting with two girls on a bench in the park right after school. The two suspects and the teen got into a verbal dispute followed by a physical fight and one of them pulled out a gun and shot the teen once from 11 years.
The police say there were about 30 people in the park at the time of the shooting and urges anyone who saw anything to come forward with information to locate the gunman responsible for the death of the adolescent.
Investigators said that since the shooting occurred right after school, they will also interview students, staff and friends of the unidentified victim to see if there was any discussion during the day, detailed NBC News.
“Let’s go back to school… see if there was any discussion during the day. We’re also looking for any of those witnesses that were in the park,” said NYPD Detective Chief James Essig.
No arrests have been made. Anyone with information should call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-43-CLUE (74782). Also through crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
In NYC, armed violence continues unleashed in 2022 especially with young gunmen and victims, posing a great challenge to the new mayor Eric Adams, who since taking office in January has encountered obstacles within his own Democratic Party and leaders of “Black Lives Matter” (BLM) to face the crisis.
In July homicides experienced an increase of 35% compared to the same month last year. Shooting victims and weapons incidents are also up nearly 10%.
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