Guyanese teen shot, killed outside Brooklyn home

Apr 29, 2014 News

Brooklyn, US (wsj.com) – A 16-year-old boy found with a fatal gunshot wound outside his Brooklyn home had allegedly been involved in an argument with an assailant over clothes and a cellphone, friends who gathered at the crime scene said Sunday.
Police said that Michael Moore had been shot in the head and was found unconscious and unresponsive outside an apartment block on East 53rd Street near Winthrop Street, East Flatbush, following the incident at 12.44 p.m. on Saturday.

Killed: Michael Moore

An ambulance arrived shortly after a 911 call and took the teenager to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead just after 1 p.m.
No arrests have been made and the investigation is continuing, police said, declining to say how many alleged attackers they were seeking. On Sunday, a single police car sat outside Mr. Moore’s home, where he lived with his mother and two siblings.
A number of security cameras, on neighbouring homes and buildings, were pointed near the spot where the alleged shooting occurred.
A group of Mr. Moore’s friends showed up outside his home Sunday, lighting candles and erecting a small cardboard sign that said “R.I.P…sleep in peace, we all love you.”
They said that he had been shot by a person known to him, a “former friend,” who was attempting to rob him of his clothes and a cellphone.
“He was a good man,” said Thomas Sands, 16 years old, a friend of Mr. Moore’s who was part of the group outside his home.
He said Mr. Moore was a student at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn and had ambitions to join the U.S. Army.
“He came up from nothing, he wanted to go into the military,” Mr. Sands said. He added that gun crimes were common in the area and this particular case was prompted by an “argument over something stupid.”
As word of the death began to spread, friends posted condolence messages on Facebook, where Mr. Moore listed his hometown as Georgetown, Guyana.
“Rest in Peace Michael,” wrote friend Ambeer Nicole.