Teenager Shot Dead in Front of Harlem Building

A 13-year-old boy was shot dead in Harlem last night. Around 7:30, Scotty Scott was shot in the chest and stomach and died instantly in front of an apartment on 144th Street off of Malcom X Boulevard. Two other teenagers were shot and wounded. Both are hospitalized in stable condition. Police do not have a motive or any suspects, but witnesses said the shooter and the victims were just having an ordinary argument before the gun was pulled and shots fired. "Everyone was running for cover and screaming. There were puddles of blood on the ground," a man calling himself 'Fortune,' told the NY Daily News.

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By Billy Parker in News on September 6, 2008 12:20 PM

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midnightbreakfast

It's easy to make over-the-top insensitive comments and overly-sensitive response to those comments behind the veil of the bbs.

I don't like the idea of outsiders coming in and re-engineering someone else's neighborhood, but I also know, as someone, a white guy who works in the neighborhood but doesn't live there, that it's sad as hell to see flyers asking for information on a 13-year-old kid shot at dinnertime in a neighborhood where there are plenty of people who aren't troublemakers, and it's also sad to see flyers offering cash for guns.

An 18-year-old punk? Maybe he'll be a punk forever. 13-years-old? Kid still had a chance, however slim.

midnightbreakfast

It's easy to make over-the-top insensitive comments and overly-sensitive response to those comments behind the veil of the bbs.

I don't like the idea of outsiders coming in and re-engineering someone else's neighborhood, but I also know, as someone, a white guy who works in the neighborhood but doesn't live there, that it's sad as hell to see flyers asking for information on a 13-year-old kid shot at dinnertime in a neighborhood where there are plenty of people who aren't troublemakers, and it's also sad to see flyers offering cash for guns.

An 18-year-old punk? Maybe he'll be a punk forever. 13-years-old? Kid still had a chance, however slim.

whitecastlerock

All anyone wants is for these retards to stop shooting each other over some bullshit slight. Why should we limit this to Harlem thugs? There are plenty more trigger happy, gangbanger pieces of shit in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Staten Island and Queens.