By The newspaper
Jun 21, 2024, 11:11 AM EDT
A 15-year-old teenager was wounded by a stray bullet when a group began shooting “playing” outside a cemetery in Brooklyn (NYC).
The shooting happened around 5:30 p.m. on June 8, the NYPD reported yesterday. Detectives believe the victim was an “unintentional target” of a group of youths who indiscriminately fired a gun.
The 15-year-old was on Schenectady Ave. near Snyder Ave. in East Flatbush, just steps from Holy Cross Cemetery, when he heard several gunshots. He immediately ran away, but then discovered that he had been shot in the arm. Paramedics took him to Kings County Hospital, where he was treated and released, he reported. DailyNews.
Four nearby teenagers were playing with the gun when they fired several bullets and were not aiming at anything specific, a law enforcement source said. They were then caught on a surveillance camera leaving the place. Two of the suspects were traveling on Citi Bikes, the images show.
No arrests have been made. Anyone with information should call 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the website crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
This week, gun violence has left at least 3 dead in New York, including a teenager near a police station in the Bronx and two adults – one of them Hispanic – in Upper Manhattan. A warehouse employee was also shot in the middle of an argument with two customers.
Particularly young people are protagonists in armed violence in New York as victims and perpetrators, with shootings and attacks with knives in streets, homes, schools, public transportation and businesses. In many cases, people are hit by stray bullets in the midst of territorial confrontations between gangs.