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New York Times
27-06-2025
- New York Times
Second Teenage Boy Shot and Killed in New York City in 2 Days
A 15-year-old boy was charged with second-degree manslaughter on Thursday in connection with the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy inside a Queens apartment this week, according to the police. The victim, Jamuri Mezar, was struck in the head by a bullet inside his home Wednesday evening and pronounced dead there, the police said. The 15-year-old, whose name has not been released by the authorities because he is a minor, was taken into custody by the police on Thursday and also charged with criminal possession of a weapon. The boys had been playing with a gun at the victim's home in Jamaica, Queens, when it went off, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the shooting who was not authorized to discuss it publicly. The 15-year-old brought the gun to Jamuri's apartment in the Norman Towers complex, where they and a group of other teenagers played with it until it suddenly went off, the official said. Police officers responding to a call about a shooting arrived at the apartment at around 5 p.m. and found Jamuri with a gunshot wound in his head. Emergency medical workers came soon after and pronounced him dead, the police said. At least two of the teenagers fled the apartment immediately after the shooting, the official said. Many details of the shooting, including how the gun went off and who had been holding it at the time, are unclear. The 15-year-old boy was arrested on Thursday just before noon. Jamuri was the second teenager to be fatally shot in New York City this week. Just one day earlier, Darrell Harris, 17, was shot and killed inside a Bronx park after getting into an argument during a water gun fight. Shootings among minors ticked upward at the start of this year, even as overall shootings in the city declined. In the first quarter of 2025, the number of juvenile shooting victims increased by 133 percent, compared with the same period in 2018, according to data provided by the Police Department. The number of juvenile perpetrators increased by 112 percent during that period, compared with 2018. In those same three months, the Police Department recorded the fewest overall shootings of any first quarter since it began recording crime statistics in 1994. Chelsia Rose Marcius contributed reporting.
New York Post
27-06-2025
- New York Post
Teen gangbanger charged in deadly NYC shooting of 14-year-old pal killed during gun mishap
A 15-year-old boy was arrested for the death of his friend and fellow gangbanger after the suspect's gun went off while he was flashing it inside a Queens apartment Wednesday afternoon, police and sources said. Jamuri Mezar, 14, was shot and killed in his Jamaica home at the Norman Towers during what law enforcement sources described as an accidental discharge. The older teen brought a stolen 9mm gun to Mezar's home and was showing it off when it fired, striking Mezar in the head, the sources said. Mezar was pronounced dead on scene, police said. 3 Jamuri Mezar, 14, was found dead at his apartment with a gunshot wound to his forehead. Google Maps 3 Mezar's friend allegedly shot him by mistake. Google Maps His pal bolted from the apartment and left the gun next to Mezar's body, which originally led investigators to believe the wound was self-inflicted, sources said. Both teenagers were members of the B4L, or brothers for life, gang, sources said. Other teens were inside the apartment at the time, the Daily News had reported. One of the boys stayed behind with Mezar to open the door for police when they arrived, sources told the Daily News. Neither of Mezar's parents owned a gun, they told the outlet. The suspect was taken into custody Thursday morning and charged with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, police said. 3 The suspect was arrested Thursday morning and charged with manslaughter. 'I save people every day, but I couldn't save my own son. I don't know why God would do this to me. He was a beautiful boy,' Mezar's mother, a registered nurse who was at work when the shooting occurred, told the outlet. Another Big Apple teenager, Darrell Harris, was shot and killed in broad daylight on Tuesday when an actual gunman turned up at a water gun fight at a Bronx park. Late Wednesday night, a 36-year-old woman was shot and killed outside of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn while the NBA was holding its annual draft inside.
