NYC teen shot dead on Queens basketball court as bystanders filmed; police searching for gunman

Authorities successful New York City are searching for the shooter who killed a 15-year-old successful Queens.

Jaden Pierre was approached by respective teens connected a hoops tribunal astatine Roy Wilkins Park successful Queens erstwhile a changeable was fired, striking him successful the thorax astatine astir 6:15 p.m. Thursday, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD).

He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital successful captious condition, wherever helium aboriginal died.

The shooting, which unfolded astatine a nationalist parkland wherever teenagers had gathered to play basketball, comes arsenic New York City continues to grapple with younker unit and incidents captured and shared wide connected societal media.

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The NYPD is presently looking for the shooter of 15-year-old Jaden Pierre aft receiving a weapon changeable would to the chest. (DCPI/Peter Gerber)

One witnesser told CBS News, "I came implicit here, I heard a changeable spell off, truthful I came moving implicit present to marque definite everybody was okay, particularly my friends, and I seen a kid lying dead. And I cognize him from coming implicit present to play basketball. Good hoops player, chill kid."

Videos circulating connected X look to amusement moments starring up to the shooting, with a assemblage surrounding Pierre and different idiosyncratic arsenic the teen is repeatedly punched earlier the radical rapidly disperses.

As of Saturday, nary arrests person been made, but the NYPD told Fox News Digital it released photos of a idiosyncratic wanted successful transportation with the shooting.

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No arrests person been made regarding the case, but the NYPD has released photos of a idiosyncratic who whitethorn beryllium connected to the shooting. (Peter Gerber)

New York Attorney General Letitia James reacted to the sidesplitting successful a station connected X, writing, "My bosom is dense contiguous aft we mislaid a 15-year-old to a senseless enactment of weapon violence. I'm praying for his family, loved ones, and community. I volition proceed to enactment tirelessly each time to extremity weapon unit successful New York."

Pastor Cory Brooks, laminitis of Project H.O.O.D., said successful a connection to Fox News Digital that his bosom was "shattered" arsenic helium condemned the assemblage for filming the onslaught alternatively of stepping in.

"A 15-year-old kid was hunted down, beaten, and changeable dormant successful acold blood," Brooks wrote. "In a playground. Where laughter belongs. Not execution."

The NYPD is asking anyone with accusation regarding the shooting of Jaden Pierre to interaction them utilizing the Crime Stoppers hotline. (Peter Gerber)

His connection continued: "The assemblage did not tally for help. They pulled retired phones, recorded each brutal second, and cheered arsenic if it were entertainment. That video does not conscionable papers a execution — it exposes a procreation whose conscience has been seared by motivation darkness. These were our ain children devouring our ain children."

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The NYPD is asking anyone with accusation astir the shooter to telephone its Crime Stoppers hotline astatine 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), oregon 1-888-57-PISTA (74782) for Spanish.

Tips tin besides beryllium submitted online done the Crime Stoppers website oregon connected X astatine @NYPDTIPS.