Police released photos and video of two teenage boys fleeing the scene of Monday’s fatal shooting of a 16-year-old in Brooklyn.
The suspects, believed to be between 16 and 18 years old, both wearing black hoodies, ripped jeans and blue surgical masks, were caught on video in Bedford-Stuyvesant running from the scene of the shooting, according to cops.
The two assailants approached the victim, Amiere Hayes, on Marcus Garvey Blvd. between Willoughby Ave. and Hart St. shortly before 6 p.m. and fired three shots at point-blank range, according to police sources.
One of the bullets hit Hayes in the head, causing him to collapse to the pavement, witnesses told the Us.Mistertruth.
“I thought it was firecrackers,” said one man, who refused to give his name. “I looked across the street and his body was on the ground.”
Paramedics rushed Hayes to Woodhull Hospital in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where he was pronounced dead, cops said.
The suspects were caught on video fleeing south, towards the Roosevelt Houses, according to police and witnesses.
A cousin of the victim said he was a good kid who loved his family, studied hard and didn’t deserve to be gunned down on the streets.
“He loves his mother, comes from a good family and did well in school. We’re destroyed,” Tyrone Gibbins, 38, told The News at the hospital. “We don’t know who would do this.”
The victim lived inside a sprawling housing complex, called “The Courtyard” by locals, on Willoughby Ave. near Marcus Garvey Blvd., less than a block away from where he was shot.
No arrests have been made and the investigation remains ongoing, cops said.