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A clash between teenagers in Fort Green has left a 16-year-old dead and a 17-year-old injured. The shooting took place around 6PM outside the Whitman-Ingersoll Houses on North Portland Avenue. A 16-year-old was confronted by three other people and shot in the neck and torso.
He was pronounced dead at the hospital, while a 17-year-old, who was shot in the back and arm, is now in stable condition. It's unclear what caused the shooting. The NY Times reports that the 16-year-old had been seen with a gun and the Post adds that he had a "prior arrest record and was a suspect in a robbery earlier in the day."
Earlier this week, Mayor Bloomberg continued his gun-control campaign, supporting a Congressional bill that would block gun sales to people on terrorist watch lists. And a few weeks ago, it was revealed that the city's nascent gun offender registry is currently tracking 65 felons.
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sad sorry
these kids need to settle their disputes like we used to: fist fight. thats how real men fought. see how tough they are when they square off with each other.
Guns are the great equalizer.
Fort Green was such a nice area back in the 1780's. So much for public housing. I guess he wont be going to MIT after all.
sad.
How can guns be legal? People don't learn thos things are always in the hands of idiots?! that by the way opt to kill at any offence?!
Live in the hood for 1.5 years now, twice I have seen two ghetto birds up over the projects in the past year, both times shootings.
this "war on guns" seems to be working, eh?
It's "G-R-E-E-N-E."
least one more criminal career person is dead.
anyone know is this the shooting that was reported on the news map yesterday at Lafayette and Lewis?
The sooner they make that entire complex middle class housing the better.
Did any humans get hurt?