Suspect Sought For Shooting Teen Outside NYC School

NEW YORK CITY — Police are searching for an unidentified man who shot a 17-year-old boy outside a Brooklyn school on Thursday.

The NYPD released surveillance images of the suspect on Friday. He is seen wearing a black North Face coat, a multicolored hooded sweatshirt, black sweatpants and brown boots.

The incident happened near Dr. Susan S. McKinney Secondary School on Park Avenue near North Oxford Street around 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, police said.

The student was shot in the stomach and was transported to New York Presbyterian-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in stable condition.

The school was briefly under a shelter-in-place order after the incident.

No arrests have been made and an investigation remains ongoing.

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.

This is a developing story. This post may be updated.