{"id":482979,"date":"2025-12-31T18:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/482979\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:37:19","slug":"boy-15-clings-to-life-after-being-shot-in-head-in-brooklyn-apartment-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/482979\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 15, clings to life after being shot in head in Brooklyn apartment building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old boy was clinging to life Wednesday after he was found shot in the head in the lobby of a Brooklyn apartment building, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/12\/24\/nyc-sees-1000-fewer-shooting-victims-in-2025-than-4-years-ago-nypd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops were trying to find the shooter in the puzzling case, which occurred inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nycha\/downloads\/pdf\/Albany%20and%20Albany%20Ii.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NYCHA\u2019s Albany Houses<\/a> on Bergen St. near Troy Ave. in Crown Heights around 4 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The teen was found shot in the head in the building lobby by a friend, who took him to an 11th-floor apartment before calling 911, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed the victim to <a href=\"https:\/\/nychealthandhospitals-appservice-east-us.azurewebsites.net\/locations\/kings-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kings County Hospital<\/a>, where he remained in critical condition on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation hit a curve as detectives found no blood trail or ballistic evidence to confirm reports that the teen was shot inside the lobby, a police source with knowledge of the case said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2022\/12\/26\/elite-nypd-squad-uses-surveillance-video-to-track-and-catch-criminals-we-take-a-lot-of-pride-in-our-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scouring the area looking for video<\/a> that could help them identify the shooter and learn more about how the shooting took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy was clinging to life Wednesday after he was found shot in the head in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":482980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-482979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newyork","19":"tag-newyorkcity","20":"tag-ny","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-nyc-crime","23":"tag-sub-county-region","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115815634921589346","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}