Overview
- Police discovered a 15-year-old dead inside an apartment on Claflin Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights on Wednesday after officers responded to a 911 call and found a gunshot wound to the head.
- Officers also found a 13-year-old at the scene who had been grazed by a bullet and was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital in stable condition.
- Investigators have not recovered a firearm, have made no arrests, and are withholding the deceased teen’s name until family members can be notified.
- Authorities are treating the case alongside a Monday homicide in the Bronx in which 16-year-old John Nunez was killed and detectives said teens may have been handling a gun when it discharged.
- The back-to-back apartment shootings have heightened community concern about youth gun violence and leave key facts—weapon recovery, motive, and whether charges will follow—likely to shift as the NYPD develops leads.