A 17-year-old boy was killed Wednesday in a shooting believed to be gang-related on a Brooklyn street, according to police.
The young victim walked out of YaYa Deli at the corner of Saratoga Ave. and Prospect Place in Brownsville around 4:55 p.m., where he was greeted by some youths, police officers and witnesses said.
“Two shots rang out and he was lying on the floor,” the man, who did not want to be named, told the Daily News.
The teenager was shot in the torso, according to police sources.
“When they lifted his shirt, they hit him in front,” the man recalled. “He was bleeding from the mouth.”
Doctors took him to the Interfaith Medical Center, but were unable to save him.
The teen, whose name was not immediately released, lived on the block where he was shot.
“He was a good boy,” a family member in the apartment told The News. “He was erudite and liked to rap.”
There were no immediate arrests.
