{"id":85652,"date":"2025-12-31T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85652\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T16:56:10","slug":"boy-15-clings-to-life-after-being-shot-in-head-in-brooklyn-apartment-building-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85652\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 15, clings to life after being shot in head in Brooklyn apartment building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 15-year-old boy was clinging to life Wednesday after he was found shot in the head in the lobby of a Brooklyn apartment building, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/12\/24\/nyc-sees-1000-fewer-shooting-victims-in-2025-than-4-years-ago-nypd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:police;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cops were trying to find the shooter in the puzzling case, which occurred inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nycha\/downloads\/pdf\/Albany%20and%20Albany%20Ii.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NYCHA\u2019s Albany Houses;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NYCHA\u2019s Albany Houses<\/a> on Bergen St. near Troy Ave. in Crown Heights around 4 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The teen was found shot in the head in the building lobby by a friend, who took him to an 11th-floor apartment before calling 911, police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EMS rushed the victim to <a href=\"https:\/\/nychealthandhospitals-appservice-east-us.azurewebsites.net\/locations\/kings-county\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kings County Hospital;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kings County Hospital<\/a>, where he remained in critical condition on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation hit a curve as detectives found no blood trail or ballistic evidence to confirm reports that the teen was shot inside the lobby, a police source with knowledge of the case said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cops were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2022\/12\/26\/elite-nypd-squad-uses-surveillance-video-to-track-and-catch-criminals-we-take-a-lot-of-pride-in-our-work\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:scouring the area looking for video;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">scouring the area looking for video<\/a> that could help them identify the shooter and learn more about how the shooting took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy was clinging to life Wednesday after he was found shot in the head in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[7352,98,100,99,9,24,63,11232,9548,41647],"class_list":{"0":"post-85652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-apartment-building","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-police-source","16":"tag-police-sources","17":"tag-shot-in-the-head"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85652","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=85652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}