{"id":214083,"date":"2026-04-29T14:28:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214083\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:28:40","slug":"boy-15-shot-on-queens-subway-by-rival-teen-is-paralyzed-on-life-support-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214083\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 15, shot on Queens subway by rival teen is paralyzed, on life support: family"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 15-year-old boy shot by a rival teen on a Queens subway train<\/a> was left paralyzed and comatose \u2014 with his family holding out little hope he\u2019ll ever recover, the victim\u2019s heartbroken great uncle says.<\/p>\n

The victim was hit in the chest and back on an A train approaching the 80th St. station in Ozone Park about 6 p.m. Monday, cops said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re devastated,\u201d the victim\u2019s great uncle, 70-year-old Carl Winston, told the Daily News. \u201cWe\u2019re going through a whole lot right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a fight and he was shot six times,\u201d he added. \u201cHe\u2019s on a respirator, a breathing machine. If they take him off the machine he might die.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even if he survives, the boy\u2019s prognosis is grim, Winston says.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s going to be a vegetable,\u201d he said. \u201cHe was hit in the spine and he\u2019s going to be paralyzed from the waist down. We hope he comes out of it, but his mom doesn\u2019t think so. If he doesn\u2019t improve, his mom is going to take him off the machine.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the second time the teen had been wounded in a shooting this year. The victim was struck in the left leg on Feb. 7 during a clash inside a building on Everdell Ave. not far from his family\u2019s former home in Far Rockaway, police sources said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was shot one time in the leg by the same guys before,\u201d the victim\u2019s great uncle confirmed.<\/p>\n

Police arrested a 15-year-old boy in March and charged him in the February shooting but the Brooklyn District Attorney\u2019s office declined to prosecute after the victim refused to testify.<\/p>\n

On Monday, investigators believe the victim confronted the suspect from the February shooting after running into him on the Manhattan-bound A train, sources said. The suspect was armed but did not pull his weapon at first, police sources said.<\/p>\n

The two teens fought until the suspect\u2019s friend grabbed the suspect\u2019s weapon and opened fire, the sources said.<\/p>\n

The victim was rushed to Jamaica Hospital.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis was an unacceptable incident,\u201d Mayor Mamdani said in a statement Monday<\/a>. \u201cViolence like this has no place on our subway system, and my administration is committed to doing everything in our power to make every New Yorker \u2014 especially children \u2014 safe on their daily commutes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The victim is the second oldest of five siblings, with two brothers and two sisters. His uncle said he was a once promising student.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a good kid but he started turning bad,\u201d said Winston. \u201cHe started hanging out and not going to school. That was years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

Law enforcement sources say the victim has been linked to multiple robbery patterns and has a criminal record that includes numerous arrests.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s shooting caused a mass panic<\/a> on the subway car with straphangers stampeded towards the exits as the train entered the station.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was pandemonium. Everybody just took off running, man. Including the two guys, the teenagers that were fighting,\u201d witness Junior White told ABC7 New York. \u201cWe all jumped onto the floor and stayed below and the doorman opened the doors up and some people ran out .\u201d<\/p>\n

Cops on Tuesday released images of the suspected shooter in Monday\u2019s clash, describing him as a teen with braids, a medium build and a medium complexion. He was wearing all black clothing and gray sneakers.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy shot by a rival teen on a Queens subway train was left paralyzed and comatose…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-214083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}