{"id":85791,"date":"2025-12-31T18:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85791\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T18:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T18:59:08","slug":"boy-15-shot-in-the-head-critically-hurt-in-lobby-of-nyc-public-housing-building-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/85791\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 15, shot in the head, critically hurt in lobby of NYC public housing building: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old boy is clinging to life after he was shot in the lobby of a Brooklyn public housing building this week, cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The teen took a bullet to the head around 4 a.m. Tuesday inside the 13-story development, part of NYCHA\u2019s Albany Houses on Bergen Street in Crown Heights, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A friend found him in the lobby, pulled him into an apartment and called 911, sources said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.85253906;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38063543\" width=\"503\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/04-shooting-took-place-15-118047003.jpg\" alt=\"The teen took a bullet to the head around 4 a.m. Tuesday inside the 13-story building, part of the Albany Houses on Bergen Street in Crown Heights, police said.\" class=\"wp-image-38063543\"  \/>The 15-year-old boy was shot in the head around 4 a.m. Tuesday inside a building within the Albany Houses on Bergen Street in Crown Heights, police said.  Kyle Mazza\/UNF News\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>Responding EMS workers rushed the teen \u2013 who lived about a half-mile away \u2013 to the Kings County Hospital Center, where he remained in critical condition Wednesday, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>No information was immediately known on the motive for the shooting, and no arrests had been made by Wednesday, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The violence came three days after a 15-year-old Connecticut boy <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/29\/us-news\/connecticut-boy-15-killed-and-another-teen-wounded-in-nyc-public-housing-shooting-cops\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was fatally shot<\/a> inside the Bronx public housing building where he once lived \u2014 a burst of gunfire that also left a 14-year-old boy wounded, cops and law enforcement sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38063545\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/04-shooting-took-place-man-118046455.jpg\" alt=\"The teen took a bullet to the head around 4 a.m. Tuesday inside the 13-story building, part of the Albany Houses on Bergen Street in Crown Heights, police said.\" class=\"wp-image-38063545\"  \/>A friend pulled the wounded teen into an apartment and called 911, sources said. Kyle Mazza\/UNF News\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>That violence stemmed from a clash between two groups inside the housing development, according to sources.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made in that case.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy is clinging to life after he was shot in the lobby of a Brooklyn public&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,303,102,57,9,56,63,65,64,3980,4730,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-85791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-crown-heights","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-shootings","18":"tag-teens","19":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85791","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=85791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}