{"id":302290,"date":"2026-07-21T22:48:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302290\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T22:48:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:48:53","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-brooklyn-youth-program-works-to-prevent-gun-violence-after-2-teen-girls-shot-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302290\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Brooklyn Youth Program Works To Prevent Gun Violence After 2 Teen Girls Shot In 24 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Two teenage girls were shot in Brooklyn within 24 hours, raising concerns about a recent string of violence involving young people.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The latest NYPD crime statistics tell two different stories. Shootings are down citywide but shooting incidents in Brooklyn South are up more than 70% over the past month.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI come to this McDonald\u2019s all the time,\u201d said East New York resident Janeen Daly. \u201cSo, you know, to hear that somebody that young got shot here. It\u2019s insane. I take my kids here all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 17-year-old girl was shot multiple times outside <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/17-year-old-girl-shot-outside-east-new-york-mcdonalds-gunman-still-on-the-run\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an East New York McDonald\u2019s<\/a> just before midnight Monday. An 18-year-old girl was shot Sunday night during an attempted robbery <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/woman-shot-during-robbery-at-crown-heights-subway-station\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">inside a Crown Heights subway station<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Both teens are expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cIt just breaks my heart when I hear kids being shot, gunned down,\u201d said Raymond Pitts, crisis management coordinator for <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elitelearners.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elite Learners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Pitts grew up in NYCHA housing in East New York. He now works through Elite Learners to keep children on a positive path.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cThe neighborhood I come from growing up in the \u201880s, \u201890s, there\u2019s a lot of violence, and that\u2019s basically all you saw and now you have a lot of kids that want help. Just don\u2019t know how to go about getting it,\u201d Pitts said. \u201cWe\u2019re a bridge between that. We break that barrier and we help them out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The program offers tutoring, mentorship and after-school activities.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI want to be a firefighter. You see how they\u2019re doing their job and they\u2019re making kids motivated to do stuff. I want to be somebody\u2019s inspiration as a firefighter,\u201d said Jahmir, 14, who is mentored by Elite Learners.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police have not made any arrests in either shooting. Elite Learners says its members will keep showing up every day, hoping those small connections can help save lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teenage girls were shot in Brooklyn within 24 hours, raising concerns about a recent string of violence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-302290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302290","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=302290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}