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New York|15-Year-Old Is Killed in Shooting at Brooklyn Apartment Complex
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The teenager, Heath Campbell, was shot in the head, the police said. Another boy, 16, who has not been identified, was shot in the shoulder and was in stable condition.
Jan. 29, 2025, 7:48 p.m. ET
A 15-year-old boy in Brooklyn was fatally shot on Tuesday afternoon at an entrance to his apartment building, the police said, sending a wave of fear through a housing complex with hundreds of units.
Police officers responded to a 911 call shortly after 3 p.m. on Tuesday and found the teenager, Heath Campbell, lying in the lobby of the 438-unit Rutland Road Houses in the East Flatbush neighborhood with a gunshot wound to the head, the department said.
Officers found a second victim, a 16-year-old boy who has not been identified, with a gunshot wound to the shoulder on the third floor of the complex, the police said. He was taken to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center and was in stable condition, according to the police. It was unclear whether there was any connection between the two victims.
An investigation into the shootings is continuing, and no arrests have been made, the department said on Wednesday.
At a vigil at the entrance to the building on Wednesday night, Mr. Campbell’s mother, Joy Smith, 46, said his death had left her feeling “torn apart.”
She said her son had been talking to friends in the lobby after school on Tuesday when he was killed.
