Fresh reports reaching the desk of Africa Today News, New York has revealed that an 18-year-old is currently in police custody after a teen had been killed in a shooting on the subway in Queens.
Police have also identified the unfortunate 15-year-old who had been killed on Friday as Jayjon Burnett.
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Police have also revealed that a single gunshot had rang out on a southbound A train just before 3:45 p.m. Friday after a dispute had broken out between two groups of teens and the bullet struck Burnett in the chest.
A Good Samaritan had also escorted the teen off the train when it arrived at the Mott Avenue Station in Far Rockaway. Once on the platform, two transit bureau officers that were patrolling the station had also rushed over to the victim to render aid.
EMS later arrived to perform CPR.
The teen had been taken to Cohen’s Children’s Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
NYPD detectives have been reportedly looking at MTA cameras and speaking to witnesses.
“We’ve seen a lot this year where disputes quickly lead to verbal arguments and quickly lead to physical disputes confrontations that unfortunately have led to violence,” said NYPD Transit Bureau Chief Jason Wilcox.
Police sources say they are looking into a gang component to the shooting, and they stress it was not a random act of violence.
In another report, No fewer than two people were on Sunday evening shot just outside the home of Lee Zeldin, a New York congressman and the New York gubernatorial candidate on the platform of the Republican party, who has made addressing crime and violence a key point of his campaign.
This attack was confirmed by the congressman on Monday in a statement which was obtained by Africa Today News, New York.
The shooting appeared to have no connection to the Zeldin family, CNN and the Wall Street Journal reported, citing police and officials familiar with the ongoing probe.
Zeldin pointed out that he did not know the identities of the two individuals who were shot, but said they had been laying down under his front porch and the bushes in front of it.
Zeldin said only his two daughters were at home at the time of the shooting. Further details of the shooting and its motives were not clear.