A 13-year-old boy is dead after a horrific shooting in Brooklyn on Thursday night.
Police officers responded to a 911 call at Brooklyn Avenue and St. Marks Avenue, where they found Troy Gill with multiple gunshot wounds throughout his body.
Paramedics rushed the boy to NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County, where doctors pronounced him dead.
No arrests have yet been made, and the investigation remains ongoing.
NYPD officials did not release a motive for the shooting, nor any suspects in the case.
Between Jan. 1 and Feb. 25, when the most recent NYPD data is available, there had been 44 murders on the streets of the five boroughs — marking a notable decline from the 60 killings during the same timeframe last year.
Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website, on Twitter @NYPDTips.
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