Yesterday afternoon in Brooklyn, a 14-year-old girl walking home from school felt a pain in her left leg. It turned out she was shot.
According to the NYPD, the incident occurred at 3:30 p.m. at the corner of Sutter Avenue and Euclid Avenue. The girl was taken to Kings County Hospital, where she is in stable condition. NBC New York reports, "The girl's parents told reporters... that their daughter was waiting for the light to change to cross the street... The victim is a straight-A student at Benjamin Banneker School, where she is a freshman, according to her parents. The girl loves to draw and wants to design clothes, they said."
Her mother added, "Who would think you get shot coming home from school?"
The police are hoping the public can identify the shooter and have released this surveillance footage of the suspect running through a gas station:
The suspect is described as being 18-20 years old, approximately 5'9" tall and weighing about 170 pounds. He was wearing a black sweatshirt and dark pants. Anyone with information in regards to this non-fatal shooting is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers Website at WWW.NYPDCRIMESTOPPERS.COM or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
