13-Year-Old Hit in Brooklyn Gunfire

2008_09_bkshing.jpgLast night, Shariffe (also known as Lamont) Peebles was shot in the back and left arm. The 13-year-old had been walking home with friends near P.S. 298 when someone in another group opened fire on Glenmore Avenue in Brownsville--as many as five shots were heard. His mother told the Daily News her son didn't know his attackers and aunt Pam Harris said, "They shot him without a motive." Harris also told the Post that her nephew was trying to tell a man sitting on a bench to move from the fire, but the man didn't move quickly enough and the teen was shot. Shariffe is in stable condition at Brookdale University Hospital.

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We need to supply these kids with bullet proof vests.

Shariffe? Helpful hint: don't ever go to Brownsville. Duh.

That Rangers jersey is not going to keep the bullets away.

what they need is to find the deadbeats

and hang them from the lamp posts until the birds and chipmunks eat their flesh.

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