Crime & Safety
Boy, 17, Shot Outside NYC School: NYPD
The incident happened near Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School, police said.
BROOKLYN, NY — A 17-year-old boy was shot outside a Brooklyn school Thursday morning, police said.
The incident happened near Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School on Park Avenue near North Oxford Street around 8:30 a.m., police said.
The student was shot in the stomach and was transported to New York Presbyterian-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in stable condition.
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Police are still looking for the shooter. A description of the suspect was not readily available as of Thursday evening.
The school was briefly under a shelter-in-place order, which has since been lifted.
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The incident happened on the first day city students returned to classes after the holiday break.
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, or on X @NYPDTips.
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