A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot in the back in Brooklyn on Monday afternoon, the police said, the latest in a disturbing rise in shootings involving young people in New York City, even as shootings in general have dropped.

The boy, Faridun Mavlonov, was shot on 20th Avenue, about a mile from his home in Bensonhurst.

The police responded to a 911 call at 1 p.m. Monday and found the teenager, who was taken to Maimonides Medical Center in critical condition.

He was pronounced dead on Tuesday, the police said. Investigators are looking for a 17-year-old boy who fired seven times at a group of teenagers a few blocks from Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School, where they were all attending summer school, said Chief James Essig, who is head of the department’s detective bureau. Faridun was not the shooter’s intended target, Chief Essig said.

Outside the family home, a six-story brick building on West 11th Street, the boy’s father, Firdavs Mavlonov, paced up and down the block as relatives and neighbors took turns hugging him.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/nyregion/teen-shooting-brooklyn.html