A 15-year-old boy died after being shot in the chest outside a public housing complex (NYCHA) in Brooklyn.
The NYPD said they found the child seriously injured outside 1570 E. 102nd St. in Canarsie around 9 p.m. Tuesday. He was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. No name has been revealed. At this time no further information was available and the investigation is ongoing, he reported. ABC News.
He was the first minor victim of homicide in 2024 in NYC and the second overall, after an Uber driver was stabbed to death in a street fight in Queens early on January 1.
No arrests have been made or suspects identified in these cases. Anyone with information should call at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the page crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
Days before NYPD announced that Homicides had decreased in the city in 2023 for the second year in a row. Last year there were 380 victimsa decrease of 11% compared to 2022, when there were 429 homicides as of December 24, after 488 in 2021.
The NYPD recorded 967 shootings in 2023 compared to 1,277 in 2022, a drop of 24.3%, and There were 405 fewer gun victims last year compared to 1,546 in 2022, that is, a positive drop of 26.2%.
A previous NYPD report warned in August that Fatal stabbings had risen 29% in 2023 in the city compared to before the pandemic (2019). Attacks with knives have become more frequent in various scenarios: streets, buildings, homes, buses, Metro, parties, schools and even commercial establishments and ATM areas.
Young people are protagonists in armed violence in New York as victims and perpetratorsparticularly shootings and knife attacks, including in and around schools.
2024-01-03 13:47:00
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