A 17-year-old boy was shot in the head and killed in Brooklyn Wednesday evening before grieving loved ones gathered in the area to mourn his death and play gospel music.<\/p>\n
Ahmir Jordan took a bullet to the head around 8:20 p.m. Wednesday inside an East New York business on New Lots Avenue, police said.<\/p>\n
The teen was rushed to One Brooklyn Health-Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center by EMS, where he was later pronounced dead, according to the NYPD.\u00a0<\/p>\n
NYPD officers work the scene where a 17-year-old boy was fatally shot on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, in Brooklyn, New York. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
A 35-year-old male was also grazed by a bullet on his right arm and was taken to the hospital in stable condition, cops said.<\/p>\n
An older woman was seen sobbing behind the crime scene tape in the aftermath of the senseless shooting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did he have to die before me? I didn\u2019t want him to die before me. Why, oh why?\u201d the heartbroken woman cried out.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Loved ones gathered near the scene and were playing gospel music late Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
A neighbor who has lived in the area for 12 years said it has \u201cbeen years\u201d since someone was shot in the neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made following the shooting. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
\u201cNo mother should have to bury their child. Especially 17 years old,\u201d the neighbor, who declined to provide her name, told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is heartbreaking. And that\u2019s from one mother to another,\u201d she said. \u201cDo you know how a mother feels to come outside and have to identify your child?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy heart goes out to that family,\u201d she added. \u201cThat\u2019s a baby. He was a baby.\u201d<\/p>\n
Loved ones gathered near the scene and were playing gospel music late Wednesday night. Robert Mecea for New York Post<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing. Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
An employee at a homeless shelter across the street from the shooting said he \u201cheard gunshots\u201d from inside the building.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was inside the shelter and I ducked. Everybody ducked. Then I came outside to see what was going on,\u201d the unidentified worker said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I saw two men running down New Lots Avenue. They looked young, like teenagers,\u201d he observed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made as of Wednesday night, police said.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old boy was shot in the head and killed in Brooklyn Wednesday evening before grieving loved ones…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,1015,4542,57,9,24,63,103,8192,3980,4730,58],"class_list":["post-325617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-deaths","tag-guns","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police-investigations","tag-shootings","tag-teens","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325617","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=325617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}