While walking home, a 13-year-old boy was killed after being shot multiple times in the streets of Crown Heights.
The fatal shooting was reported at 10:40 p.m. at the intersection of Brooklyn and Saint Marks Avenues.
Police reported that when they arrived at the scene they found a 13-year-old boy with multiple gunshot wounds.
The child was taken to H+H/Kings County Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The young man was identified as Troy Gill.
The murder occurred just two blocks from the building where Gill lived.
The incident is under investigation.
This is the second homicide to occur in the Crown Heights area this week.
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Edwin Martínez, 13 years old, was in his last year of middle school, was preparing to make his first communion and dreamed of being a mechanic, but a traffic accident took away his dreams.
2/11
This Monday night a vigil was held in memory of Edwin Martínez, a young man who died on Sunday in a car accident.
3/11
Martínez, 13, was traveling with his teenage cousin in a BMW car when they were hit by another car at an intersection in Newark and the minor lost his life.
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4/11
The fatal accident occurred Sunday around 9:50 p.m. at the intersection of Clifton Avenue and Montclair Avenue.
5/11
The car in which they were traveling was hit squarely by a black sedan, which the family presumes to be a stolen car.
6/11
Family and friends gathered at the intersection to hold a vigil in Edwin’s memory.
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7/11
“I hoped to see him alive, but since my child was coming from that side, the car killed him with a single (hit). I don’t have a male child,” his mother Xenia Martínez explained between sobs.
8/11
The woman commented that both young people were returning from dinner. The cousin was talking on the phone with his girlfriend when the impact occurred. The teenager’s girlfriend called her mother who immediately ran to the scene, where she observed the car practically destroyed.
9/11
Authorities have not confirmed the information, but witnesses to the accident told Univision that the driver was detained and two other passengers fled the accident.
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10/11
The youngest was in his last year of middle school, was preparing to make his first communion and dreamed of being a mechanic.
11/11
The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating the accident.
2024-03-01 11:07:00
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