14yo fatally shot at NYC housing project

Metro

By Larry Celona and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

A 14-year-old boy was once fatally shot at a Brooklyn public-housing project Sunday morning, police mentioned.

The sufferer, who has now not been recognized, was once discovered with a gunshot wound to the chest after police officers spoke back to a 911 name at the Howard Houses in Brownsville in a while ahead of 10:30 a.m., the NYPD mentioned.

The youngster was once rushed to Brookdale Hospital, the place he was once pronounced useless, police officers mentioned.

A suspect is in custody, and a weapon – a shotgun – has been recovered, in keeping with law-enforcement resources.

The resources mentioned detectives are having a look into the likelihood that the taking pictures was once unintended however the investigation is constant. 

The Big Apple has noticed an uptick in violence concentrated on teenagers in contemporary months, together with right through a bloody week final month that noticed two children killed and 6 others wounded.

An NYPD manager instructed The Post at the time that 11% of gun arrests final yr concerned minors — up 120 % from 2018 — whilst about one-quarter of youths arrested with weapons in 2021 went directly to be a culprit or sufferer of a taking pictures inside two years.