Teen shot in broad daylight in Brooklyn
NEW YORK - Police are investigating the shooting of a 15-year-old who's now in critical condition in Brooklyn.
The block in Bensonhurst was still crawling with officers hours after the shooting. Paper cups on the ground mark shelled casings, and they were scattered across both sides of the street.
Witnesses said they found the 15-year-old victim getting CPR after getting shot just after 1 p.m. on 62nd Street and 20th Avenue in Brooklyn.
Witnesses said they heard a quick succession of gunfire and then saw a group of teenagers make a run for the subway station nearby.
On the corner, they found the victim with a gunshot wound to the back.
He was taken to Maimonides Hospital in critical condition.
"I hear, like, boom boom boom, five times, shots. And I open the window and there was a Jewish lady downstairs and I ask her is this gunshots? She said it looked like. I looked from the window and all of a sudden a bunch of kids run to the subway," witness Omar Ramadan said. "I asked some student how this happened, he said some student got shot. That's it."
There was a police presence at the nearby FDR High School, but it's unclear if the victims or the suspect were students there.
Witnesses said they saw a group of teens putting on face masks and one swinging a bat about a block away from the shooting before it happened – but are unsure if they were involved.
So far no arrests have been made.
Anyone with any information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). You can also submit a tip via their website or via DM on Twitter, @NYPDTips. All calls are kept confidential.
