NEW YORK – A 16-year-old Brooklyn boy was shot and killed on Wednesday evening, reportedly while being chased down a street.
Jaden Turnage was shot on Monroe Street, between Classon and Franklin avenues, in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 6:15 p.m.
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Turnage was being chased at the time he was shot, according to WABC.
Officers responding to a 911 call found the 16-year-old with a gunshot wound to his chest.
He was transported to Brooklyn Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
No arrests were immediately reported.
Turnage’s death comes a day after another 16-year-old boy, Cahlil Pennington, was fatally shot at Miller and Pitkin avenues in East New York on Tuesday afternoon.
Investigations into both shootings are ongoing, police said.
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