Boy, 17, fatally shot in NYC amid spike in teen gun violence
A 17-year-old boy was fatally shot in East Harlem on Sunday – the latest teen to succumb to gun violence in the city, cops say.
Dominick Allen was blasted in the chest on East 105th Street near First Avenue around 5:15 p.m., authorities said. The motive for the killing is unclear. When cops responded to the scene for a “shots fired” call, Allen had already been taken to Harlem Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said. The shooting comes weeks after NYPD datarevealed that a growing number of teens are getting shot in the Big Apple — and that other youngsters are the ones pulling the trigger in the majority of the cases.NYPD statistics show that youngsters pulled the trigger in 98 shootings in the five boroughs from Jan. 1 through Sept.
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