Teenager Dominick Allen died after being left with a gunshot wound at a Manhattan (NYC) hospital.
Allen, 17, was dropped off at Harlem Hospital on Lenox Ave. near W. 136th St. around 5:15 p.m. Sunday, police said. Once there, medical personnel were unable to save him, he reported. Daily News.
Police later confirmed that Allen had been shot in the chest at East River Houses, a public housing complex (NYCHA) on E. 105th St. near First Ave., East Harlem. It is not clear if the victim lived there.
No arrests have been made or suspects identified. Anyone with information should call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
In a similar case, a 26-year-old man was found dead with a gunshot wound in the passenger seat of a parked car yesterday afternoon in the Bronx (NYC). Also in that county on Tuesday, a 25-year-old man was fatally shot in the head during an apparent confrontation inside an apartment he was visiting in a NYCHA building.
Young people are increasingly protagonists in gun violence in New York as victims and perpetrators, particularly shootings and attacks with bladed weapons.