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FAR ROCKAWAY, Queens (WABC) -- Police person identified the 15-year-old killed successful a shooting connected the subway successful Queens connected Friday arsenic Jayjon Burnett.
Police accidental a azygous gunshot rang retired connected a southbound A bid conscionable earlier 3:45 p.m. Friday aft a quality broke retired betwixt 2 groups of teens.
The slug struck Burnett successful the chest.
A Good Samaritan escorted the teen disconnected the bid erstwhile it arrived astatine the Mott Avenue Station successful Far Rockaway. Once connected the platform, 2 transit bureau officers that were patrolling the presumption rushed implicit to the unfortunate to render aid. EMS aboriginal arrived to execute CPR.
The teen was taken to Cohen's Children's Hospital wherever helium was aboriginal pronounced dead.
NYPD detectives are looking astatine MTA cameras and speaking to witnesses.
"We've seen a batch this twelvemonth wherever disputes rapidly pb to verbal arguments and rapidly pb to carnal disputes confrontations that unluckily person led to violence," said NYPD Transit Bureau Chief Jason Wilcox.
The suspect, estimated to beryllium betwixt 15 and 19 years aged and wearing each black, fled the bid successful an chartless direction, constabulary said.
Police sources accidental they are looking into a pack constituent to the shooting, and they accent it was not a random enactment of violence.
Service connected the A bid was suspended betwixt Far Rockaway-Mott Ave and Broad Channel successful some directions during the investigation.
The shooting decease is the eighth idiosyncratic killed successful the transit strategy this year.
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