A 17-year-old boy was shot Thursday morning in Brooklyn’s second shooting of the new year.
An unknown gunman shot the teen in the abdomen near the corner of Park and North Portland avenues in Fort Greene just before 8:30 a.m., police said, just steps from the Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School of the Arts and Oxport Playground.
The perp, who was described as a teenager wearing a black jacket, fled the scene on foot, headed northbound on North Oxford Street toward Flushing Avenue and the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Paramedics rushed the 17-year-old victim to NewYork-Presbyterian/Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in stable condition, cops said. No arrests have yet been made, and the investigation is ongoing.
Police asked anyone with information regarding the shooting to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA), or report their tips online or @NYPDNews on X.
In the 88th Precinct, where Thursday’s incident occurred, crime rose by 8.99% in 2024, according to the latest NYPD statistics. Murders in the precinct doubled, from three in 2023 to six in 2024, though shooting incidents were down slightly, from 11 in 2023 to nine in 2024. In October, a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed at Walt Whitman Houses, just blocks from the scene of Thursday’s shooting.
The incident came just 12 hours after a man was shot and seriously wounded at an East New York barbershop on Jan. 1.
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