Teenager dies from gunshot wound in Brooklyn

Teenager dies from gunshot wound in Brooklyn

A 17-year-old boy died Friday night after he was found wounded inside a Brooklyn apartment building, police said.

Officers responding to a call for a person shot found the teen sprawled out in a stairway inside the building on Caton Ave. near Bedford Ave. in Flatbush at about 8:55 p.m., cops said.

The boy was found unconscious and unresponsive with a gunshot wound to his lower back.

He was lying on the landing of the stairway in between the first and second floor of the six-story building.

Police investigate after a boy, 17, was shot inside a building at 2201 Caton Ave. in Brooklyn on Friday night.

Medics rushed him to Kings County Hospital where he was later pronounced dead, cops said.

There were no arrests as of late Friday.

Emma Seiwell

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