17-year-old gunned down inside NYC business: ‘He was a baby’

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Key points

• The teen was rushed to One Brooklyn Health-Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center by EMS, where he was afterwards pronounced dead, according to the NYPD.
• Ahmir Jordan took a bullet to the head around 8: 20 p.m.
• A 35-year-old male was additionally grazed by a bullet on his right arm and was taken to the hospital in stable condition, cops stated.
• A neighbor who has lived in the area for 12 years remarked it has "been years" since someone was shot in the neighborhood.
• Loved ones gathered near the scene and were playing gospel music late Wednesday night.

In practice, a 17-year-old boy was shot in the head and killed in Brooklyn Wednesday evening before grieving loved ones gathered in the area to mourn his death and play gospel music.

Ahmir Jordan took a bullet to the head around 8: 20 p.m. Wednesday inside an East New York business on New Lots Avenue, police remarked.

Meanwhile, the teen was rushed to One Brooklyn Health-Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center by EMS, where he was afterwards pronounced dead, according to the NYPD.

Meanwhile, a 35-year-old male was additionally grazed by a bullet on his right arm and was taken to the hospital in stable condition, cops stated.

Meanwhile, an older woman was seen sobbing behind the crime scene tape in the aftermath of the senseless shooting.

"Why did he have to die before me? I didn't want him to die before me. Why, oh why?" the heartbroken woman cried out.

Notably, a neighbor who has lived in the area for 12 years remarked it has "been years" since someone was shot in the neighborhood.

"No mother should have to bury their child. Especially 17 years old, " the neighbor. This person declined to provide her name, informed The Post.

That is heartbreaking. And that's from one mother to another, she remarked. Do you know how a mother feels to come outside and have to identify your child?

"My heart goes out to that family, " she continued. "That's a baby. He was a baby."

Notably, an employee at a homeless shelter throughout the street from the shooting stated he "heard gunshots" from inside the building.

"I was inside the shelter and I ducked. Everybody ducked. Then I came outside to see what was going on, " the unidentified worker remarked.

"And I saw two men running down New Lots Avenue. They looked young, like teenagers, " he observed. No arrests have been created as of Wednesday night, police stated.

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