12-Year-Old Boy Becomes First Minor to Die of Gunshot in NYC in 2022 After Being Struck by Stray Bullet

12-Year-Old Boy Becomes First Minor to Die of Gunshot in NYC in 2022 After Being Struck by Stray Bullet
NYPD officers respond to the scene of a shooting that left multiple people injured in the Flatbush neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough in New York City on April 6, 2021. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
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A 12-year-old boy has become the first minor to die in a shooting in New York City in 2022, after he was fatally shot by a stray bullet on March 31.

Police confirmed that the boy had been sitting in a parked car with two relatives in Brooklyn when he was shot in the head by stray bullets after gunfire erupted on East 56 Street and Linden Boulevard in East Flatbush just after 7:45 p.m.
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