US Edition15-Year-Old Boy Shot Dead in Queens Park. Here's the Latest on the Investigation.
Police say the boy was shot after a basketball court dispute and no arrests have been made as investigators search for a suspect.
- On Thursday, 15-year-old Jaden Pierre was fatally shot at Roy Wilkins Park in St. Albans, Queens, where officers from the 113th Precinct found him near the Nautilus Playground basketball courts with a chest wound.
- Police sources indicate the shooting followed a physical dispute involving several teens on the basketball court, during which the victim was allegedly beaten by multiple individuals before one person brandished a weapon and fired.
- New York State Attorney General Letitia James wrote, "My heart is heavy tonight after we lost a 15-year-old to a senseless act of gun violence." Erica Ford of Life Camp added, "Somebody is bringing guns into our community and putting them in the hands of our children."
- The NYPD has made no arrests in the ongoing investigation; this tragedy occurred less than 24 hours after another 15-year-old boy was killed at Eisenhower Park in Nassau County on Wednesday.
- This incident follows the burial of seven-month-old Kaori Patterson-Moore, who died in a stray-bullet shooting on April 1, as authorities urge anyone with information to contact NYPD Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS.
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Video posted by ex-Mayor Eric Adams shows 15-year-old being beaten, fatally shot in Queens playground
NEW YORK — Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Friday posted alarming video to social media showing teenager Jaden Pierre being beaten and fatally shot at point-blank range in a Queens playground.
Queens teen shot dead at park after basketball court argument; cops on desperate search to find killer
Police in Queens are on the hunt for the gunman who fatally shot a 15-year-old in a park on Thursday night in a killing that rocked the community. According to police sources, the deadly shots rang out around 6:15 p.m. on April 16 inside Roy Wilkins Park in St. Albans, near the corner of Merrick and Baisley Boulevards. Officers from the 113th Precinct found Jaden Pierre, 15, of 103rd Avenue in South Richmond Hill, lying not far from the basketba…
Boy, 15, killed in suspected gang-related shooting in NYC park: ‘These badass little kids’
Cops discovered the 15-year-old boy lying with a gunshot wound to his torso near Nautilus Playground in Roy Wilkins Park in St. Albans just before 6:20 p.m. after responding to a 911 call, according to the NYPD and law enforcement sources.
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