15-Year-Old Boy Shot Dead While Riding Subway in Far Rockaway - The New York Times

A 15-year-old lad was killed connected Friday successful a subway car successful Queens during an statement betwixt 2 groups of young radical aboard the train, constabulary officials said.

The victim, whom the constabulary did not identify, was changeable astatine slightest erstwhile successful the thorax conscionable earlier 4 p.m. portion riding a southbound A bid successful Far Rockaway, according to Chief Jason K. Wilcox, who heads the Transit Bureau.

Chief Wilcox, who spoke astatine a quality league connected Friday nighttime astatine the Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue subway station, said a rider took the unfortunate disconnected the bid and placed him connected the level of the station. There, 2 Transit Bureau officers who were connected patrol rushed to the victim’s aid.

Emergency workers besides arrived to effort to resuscitate the boy. He was past taken to Cohen Children’s Medical Center successful Queens, wherever helium was pronounced dormant astatine 4:40 p.m.

The quality of the statement and what prompted it were inactive nether investigation, Chief Wilcox said.

But, helium said, “the probe is showing that this was not a random enactment of violence.”

“We’ve seen a batch this year, wherever disputes rapidly pb to verbal arguments, and past rapidly pb to carnal disputes — confrontations that unluckily person led to violence. So we’ve seen that again,” helium added.

There person been 8 killings successful the subway, including the 1 connected Friday night, since the commencement of the year, Chief Wilcox said. There were six betwixt Jan. 1 and Oct. 9, 2021, according to constabulary statistics.

The fatal shooting connected Friday was the 3rd homicide to hap successful the subway since Sept. 30.

On that day, officers recovered a antheral successful the Atlantic Avenue subway presumption with stab wounds to his head, back, torso and neck, according to a transgression complaint. The victim, Tommy Bailey, was taken to Brookdale Hospital successful Brooklyn, wherever helium was pronounced dead.

Six days later, Alvin Charles, who is homeless, was charged with murder. Mr. Charles was retired connected supervised merchandise aft helium was charged with attempted execution past twelvemonth successful a abstracted case.

Then, connected Oct. 6, a 38-year-old antheral riding a 4 bid was fatally stabbed by different rider arsenic they stepped onto a Bronx subway platform, according to the police, who released surveillance video.

The victim, Charles Moore, was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, wherever helium died. Two days later, Saquan Lemons, a 27-year-old antheral from the Bronx, was arrested and charged with murder, according to tribunal records.

On Friday, the quality betwixt the 2 groups aboard the A bid had escalated by the clip the bid reached the Beach 36 Street station, which is 2 stops from the Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue station, Chief Wilcox said.

He said the changeable that killed the 15-year-old lad was apt fired betwixt the adjacent stop, Beach 25 Street, and the Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue station, which is the extremity of the line.

Richard Davey, the president of New York City Transit, commended the constabulary astatine the quality league connected Friday for making arrests successful each of the different subway killings truthful acold this year.

But, helium said, authorities indispensable bash much to marque the trains safer.

“We evidently person enactment to do, there’s nary uncertainty astir it,” helium said. “I instrumentality the subway each day. I’ll instrumentality it location tonight. So hopefully that gives folks confidence. That that’s however I judge successful it. But we’ve got to halt this.”