Teen dies after shooting at Brooklyn NYCHA complex, NYPD says

Police said Monday they were still investigating the killing of a 14-year-old boy who was fatally shot the day before at a public housing complex in Brooklyn.

NYPD officers were called around 10:30 a.m. Sunday to 80 Osborn St. in the NYCHA Howard Houses in Brownsville and found the boy unresponsive and unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the chest, according to a police spokesperson.

First responders took the boy to Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. No suspects were immediately identified and police did not release the teen's name as they worked to notify his family.

According to the New York Daily News, police were looking into the possibility that a younger cousin accidentally shot him while he was playing with a gun.

The 14-year-old is the 10th person to die from gun violence in the 73rd Precinct so far this year, according to NYPD data. This is a marked increase from 2023, when six people were shot and killed at the station in the entire year.

On May 18, Lamont Russell, 30, was shot and killed at 101 Osborn St., next door to the Howard Houses. A 28-year-old man, also involved in the incident, was shot in the hand. At the time, one of Russell's cousins ​​said a man wearing a mask shot Russell.

A few days earlier, about a mile away, Maurice Boodie, 24, was fatally shot in his apartment building on Strauss Street in Brownsville.

According to police statistics, 20 shootings, resulting in a total of 23 victims, have been reported since the start of the year in District 73, which includes Brownsville and Ocean Hill. For comparison, 12 incidents involving 13 victims were reported at the station during the same period last year.

This is a developing story and may be updated.