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Teen shot and killed outside Harlem apartment complex, police say

Police said a 15-year-old boy was shot and killed outside 230 West 131st St. in Harlem on Friday night.
Police said a 15-year-old boy was shot and killed outside 230 West 131st St. in Harlem on Friday night.

A 15-year-old boy was shot dead outside a Harlem housing development on Friday night, police said.

Officers responded to a 911 call about a person shot in the vicinity of the St. Nicholas Houses at 230 W. 131st St. at about 9:35 p.m., according to police.

When they arrived, they found the teen, Jeremiah Draper, who lived within the complex, unconscious and unresponsive with a gunshot wound to his head, police said.

Emergency medical workers pronounced the boy dead at the scene, according to police.

There have been no arrests and the investigation is ongoing.