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Boy, 16, shot to death at Brooklyn NYCHA complex



A 16-year-old boy was shot to death at a Brooklyn NYCHA complex, cops said Sunday.

The teen was shot in the chest on Auburn Place near N. Portland Ave. at the Walt Whitman Houses complex in Fort Greene about 11:45 p.m. Saturday, cops said.

Medics rushed the victim to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital but he couldn’t be saved.

Police recovered four bullet fragments at the scene and were looking for a gray Hyundai seen speeding off after the shooting, cops said.

The killing marks the fifth homicide this year in the 88th Precinct, which saw three killings in all of 2023.

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