A horrific wave of gun violence in the city has claimed the life of a fourth teenager in as many days — a 15-year-old boy gunned down just blocks from his Brooklyn home, authorities say.
Around 8:42 p.m. Friday, police responding to a 911 call about an assault found young Malachi Deberry with a gunshot wound to the head near Lenox Road. and Rockaway Pkwy. In Brownsville, cops said. Medics transported the youth to Maimonides Medical Center, where he died, according to police.
The youth, who lived a half-mile from where he was fatally shot, was the second of four teenagers killed in a series of alarming shootings in the city from Thursday to Sunday.
Just before midnight Saturday, police found Taearion Mungo, 16, shot in the chest on Auburn Place near N. Portland Ave. in front of NYCHA’s Walt Whitman Homes in Fort Greene, officers said. The teenager lived in another building in the same residential complex.
Medics rushed Mungo to Methodist-Presbyterian Hospital in New York, where he was pronounced dead.
Then, less than 24 hours later, Tristan Sanders, 16, was shot twice in the chest by a hail of gunfire in the hallway of an Albany Houses building on St. Marks Avenue, near Troy Avenue, around 7:15 p.m. Sunday. , the cops said. Although the teen was rushed by medics to Kings County Hospital, he died about 45 minutes later.
Sanders had no identification on him and cops initially estimated the young victim to be in his 20s.
Two teenagers, one wearing a gray hoodie and the other a blue hoodie, fled the scene and are being sought, police said. Four shell casings were found between the second and third floors.
The disturbing gun violence, however, began around 1:30 a.m. Thursday, when Clarence Jones, 16, was fatally shot in the torso by two gunmen on Razor scooters near W. 124th St. and Lenox Ave. in Harlem, police said. The youth was just nine blocks from his home when he was shot, cops say.
There were no arrests; investigations are underway in all four disturbing cases.
