A horrifying spree of gun violence in the city has claimed a fourth teenager in as many days — a 15-year-old boy gunned down just blocks from his Brooklyn home, authorities say.
Around 8:42 p.m. Friday, police responding to a 911 call about an assault discovered young Malachi Deberry with a gunshot wound to his head near Lenox Rd. and Rockaway Pkwy. In Brownsville, cops said. Medics rushed the youngster to Maimonides Medical Center, where he died, according to police.
“We won’t forget him. We know he was good. He was loved,” Deberry’s sister told the Daily News Monday night. The family declined any further comment.
The youngster, who lived a half-mile from where he was fatally shot, was the second of four teenagers killed in an alarming spate of gunfire in the city from Thursday to Sunday.
On Saturday, just before midnight, police found Taearion Mungo, 16, with a gun shot wound to his chest on Auburn Place near N. Portland Ave. outside NYCHA’s Walt Whitman Houses in Fort Greene, cops said. The teen lived in a different apartment building in the same housing complex.
Medics rushed Mungo to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased.
Then less than 24 hours later, 16-year-old Tristan Sanders was blasted twice in the chest in a hail of gunfire in a hallway of an Albany Houses apartment building on St. Marks Ave. near Troy Ave. around 7:15 p.m. Sunday, cops said. Though the teen was rushed by medics to Kings County Hospital, he died about 45 minutes later.
Sanders wasn’t carrying any ID and cops initially estimated the young victim was in his 20s.
Two teens, one wearing a gray hoodie, the other a blue hoodie, ran from the scene and are being sought, police said. Four shell casings were recovered between the second and third floors.
The disturbing gun violence, however, began around 1:30 a.m. Thursday, when Clarence Jones,16, was fatally shot in the torso by two gunmen on Razor scooters near W. 124th St. and Lenox Ave. in Harlem, cops said. The youngster was just nine blocks from home when he was gunnded down, according to cops.
There have been no arrests; investigations are underway in all four troubling cases.
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