The death of Troy Gill13 years old, who precisely He had called his mother after he was shot. when he was back home After a Brooklyn Nets basketball game, he may have been the victim of an attack by a rival gangaccording to police sources.
The investigators behind the investigation into the homicide of the minor The young man has been linked to the Trench Crew, a street gang that operates in Bedford-Stuyvesant and other places north of Brooklyn..
“He was definitely the target,” said a police source.adding that the police have videos of members of the rival group, but they continue to investigate the case.
The preteen was somehow “affiliated” with the gangthe sources explained, although the boy’s participation with the band was not immediately made known.
The minor was alone when an armed subject fatally shot him at New York Ave. and Bergen St. in Crown Heights around 10:40 Thursday night. He received several gunshot wounds to the chest and arm.
Gill ran and collapsed on the street two blocks away from the shooting.. Paramedics immediately transported him to Kings County Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
An alleged attack by a rival gang was an “investigation avenue” for detectives as they continue with their investigationssaid a high-ranking police source.
The mother of the murdered minor told authorities that she did not know he had gone to the game until he called her on FaceTime from the playing arena around 9:00 p.m., officials revealed.
The boy called his mother again on FaceTime an hour later from an Uberaccording to the New York Police Department (NYPD). He called again at 10:36 at night and told her that he had been shot and that he was running to the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.they pointed out.
Friends shocked by the news described the young man as a kind and fun boy with a passion for basketball, reported Daily News.
Officers recovered six bullet casings at the scene. and on Friday they continued to perimeter the area in search of videos from security cameras so that they could help them identify the gunman.
This was the third murder that took place in the Brooklyn neighborhood in the past weekNYPD said.
The band Trench Crew has been investigated for various violent acts for several yearsthe authorities indicated.
Infighting within the gang caused a fatal shooting at a busy Bedford-Stuyvesant playground in April 2022, the NYPD said.
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