Crime & Safety
Video Captures 3 Men Leaving Scene Of Bed-Stuy Shooting: NYPD
Tahrim Applewhite was shot in from of a Gates Ave. homeless shelter.
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, NY – Police are hunting three men they believe are connected to the killing of a teenager in front of a Bed-Stuy homeless shelter.
Tahrim Applewhite, 19, from Auburn in upstate New York, was shot in the stomach and right arm and found lying outside the Doe Fund's Gates Avenue Center for Opportunity at 520 Gates Ave. at 11:45 a.m. on Dec. 21, police said. He was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital.
Police said Tuesday they're trying to find three men seen on surveillance video in the area. All three are between 17 and 18-years-old and were wearing dark colored hooded tops. One was wearing khaki pants and red sneakers, the second a gray jacket with stripes and dark pants and the third was wearing dark pants, police said.
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Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
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