Troy Gill, a 13-year-old boy returning home last night after watching a Brooklyn Nets basketball game, was shot to death in Crown Heights (NYC).
It is not clear if the child was an “accidental” victim or the target of the shooting which occurred at 10:40 pm on Thursday between New York and Bergen avenues, where NYPD detectives found six bullet casings.
13-year-old boy heading home from Nets game shot dead in Crown Heights
The victim stumbled away while heading towards his home — a half-mile away. But he collapsed halfway there. Cops are searching for video and say it’s not clear why the teen was killed.https://t.co/jKnYdm312j
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Gill managed to get away after being wounded, but He collapsed almost halfwayat Brooklyn Ave. and St. Mark’s Ave. Paramedics rushed him to Kings County Hospital, but could not save him.
The boy lived on St. Mark’s Ave. near Albany Ave., about a half-mile away from where he was shot. Police are searching for surveillance videos and the motive for the shooting is unclear at this time, he noted. Daily News.
Police said Gill had gone to the Barclays Center to see the Nets beat the Hawks and that he was alone when he was shot. No arrests have been made or suspects identified. 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.
This crime was added to other deadly shootings on Brooklyn streets in a few days: A 33-year-old man was fatally shot in the head on Wednesday after being ambushed by two people outside his residential building in Crown Heights.
Also in Brooklyn on Monday, a 37-year-old man was shot in the head in broad daylight in an apparent argument over a cigarette that started in the warehouse where he worked and spilled out onto the street on Franklin Avenue.
2024-03-01 17:34:00
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