A 13-year-old boy was shot within the head exterior a Queens Dunkin’ Donuts Monday morning, leaving him clinging to life, cops stated.
The boy was struck when a gunman opened hearth round 8:20 a.m. in entrance of the store on the nook of Linden and Springfield boulevards in Cambria Heights, police stated.
The suspect, described as a person carrying a white hoodie, white sneakers and carrying a black backpack, ran off, sources stated.
First responders rushed the teenager to Cohen Kids’s Medical Middle, the place he was nonetheless in important situation by the late morning.
The motive was not but clear.
Cops couldn’t instantly affirm whether or not the teenager was headed to high school on the time he was shot, however the scene is simply blocks from a number of faculties — together with PS/MS 147 Ronald McNair, Benjamin Franklin Excessive College and PS 176 Cambria Heights.