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ALLERTON, The Bronx (PIX11) \u2014 Police are looking for multiple suspects after a 15-year-old boy was fatally shot<\/a> in the stairwell of a NYCHA apartment building in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

It happened during dinnertime two days after Christmas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard a loud bang, actually three loud bangs,\u201d Leon Stafford, a resident of the building, told PIX11 News.<\/p>\n

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Stafford was home in his seventh-floor apartment in the Eastchester Gardens at 6:30 p.m. Saturday when he heard what sounded like three shots right outside his front door. That\u2019s when he tried to see what was going on.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I rushed to the door, it was an individual with a black COVID-19 mask, dreadlocks, black hoodie, black jacket,\u201d Stafford told PIX11 News. \u201cThat\u2019s what I witnessed as I saw three individuals running downstairs,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Police say 15-year-old Eric Aitkin of Waterbury, Connecticut, was shot in the chest in the seventh-floor stairwell at 1219 Adee Ave. He was rushed to Jacobi Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n

Police also found a 14-year-old boy shot in the arm just a few blocks away. He is now listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis neighborhood has been filled with gang violence,\u201d Stafford said. \u201cPolice presence actually has not been enough,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Stafford is hoping surveillance cameras on the outside of his building caught clear pictures of the suspects, who he hopes will turn themselves in to the police.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoever is involved, just come forward to the police because what you did was wrong,\u201d Stafford told PIX11 News. \u201cAnd if we keep killing each other, there has to be unity. We got to come together and love each other, not kill each other,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Police are also hoping more witnesses will come forward.<\/p>\n

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