Police arrested and charged a teenager with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old Brooklyn boy at a public housing building in Sheepshead Bay on Monday, NYPD officials said.
The defendant, a 16-year-old boy whom authorities did not name because he is a minor, was taken into custody on Tuesday afternoon in the same precinct where the other boy was killed, police said. He is also charged with criminally negligent homicide and criminal gun possession.
Attorney information for the arrested teen was not immediately available early Wednesday. Police said they were still investigating the incident and did not yet have details about how exactly the shooting unfolded or if the teens knew each other.
Officials said Ka’mardre Coleman, 16, died at the hospital after paramedics transported him with a gunshot wound to his chest from the New York City Housing Authority’s Sheepshead Bay Houses on Avenue X and Brown Street around 6 p.m. on Monday. His father, Codwell Coleman, described him on Tuesday as a “good kid” and talented athlete, but said he did not know much about how or why his son was shot.
The NYPD said Ka’mardre Coleman lived in NYCHA’s Nostrand Houses on Bragg Street and Avenue V, also in Sheepshead Bay and under a half-mile from where he was shot.
He is at least the fifth teen to die from gun violence in the city so far this year, according to Gothamist’s analysis of police reports. Last year, 25 teens died in shootings citywide.
Homicides and shootings in the 61st Precinct, which includes Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend and Manhattan Beach, are at roughly the same levels as by this point last year, NYPD data shows. The precinct has had just one other shooting so far in 2026, and no other homicides, according to the data.
This story is based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.