NYPD Releases 2nd Pic Of Suspect In Inwood Shooting Of Teenager

INWOOD, NY — The New York Police Department released an additional picture over the weekend of a man wanted in connection to a 15-year-old boy getting shot nine times in Inwood during the first week of August.

Last Wednesday, police released the first photo of a suspect in the seemingly unprovoked attack of the teenager in Upper Manhattan.

Here is the new photo NYPD sent out Saturday of the same man.

Around 8:50 p.m. on Aug. 7, a man hopped out of a black Toyota Highlander being driven by another person at the corner of West 204th Street and Broadway, approached the 15-year-old in front of 650 West 204th Street and displayed a gun, police said.

The man proceeded to fire off the gun, striking the teenager nine times throughout the body, police said.

The 15-year-old was rushed to the hospital in stable condition and the shooter fled westbound on 204th Street in the black Toyota Highlander.

Anyone with information in regard to 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).

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