Two 15-year-old New York teens charged in latest city shootings

Two 15-year-olds were charged and two others were found dead in the latest spate of teen shootings in New York City in October.

The first shooting occurred on the evening of October 16, a spokesperson for the New York Police Department told USA TODAY.

Someone called authorities about a man who had been shot. The victim, later identified as 18-year-old McNally Zamor, was shot in the head.

Emergency personnel arrived and took him to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center in Brooklyn, where he was initially listed in critical condition.

Authorities arrested the 15-year-old boy the next day and charged him with attempted second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

New York police said Zamor died of his injuries nine days after the shooting, and the case is now being treated as a homicide.

The Brooklyn district attorney’s office plans to renew the grand jury indictment, an attorney’s office official told USA TODAY Friday afternoon.

In another case that took the life of 16-year-old Clarence Jones, a 15-year-old was charged with second-degree murder, the New York Police Department said.

Jones was shot in the torso on October 24. He was taken to New York Hospital in Harlem, where doctors pronounced him dead. The NYPD said the 15-year-old arrested in his case was taken into custody Thursday night.

In October, New York reported several shooting victims of teenagers

According to the NYPD, there have been at least four other recent shootings involving teenagers, including:

Malachy Deberry15 years old, died on October 25. An attack was reported. At the scene, police found DeBerry with a gunshot wound to the head. He was taken to Maimonides Medical Center, where he eventually died.
Thearion Mungo16, was shot on October 26. That night, someone called the police about a man who had been shot. Police officers found the victim with a gunshot wound to the chest. Mungo was taken to New York Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he later died.
Tristan SandersThe 15-year-old was killed on Sunday, October 27, authorities said. On Sunday evening, a caller contacted the police about a man who had been shot. The police reported that the victim was wounded in the chest. He was taken to New York Hospital in Kings County in critical condition, where doctors eventually pronounced him dead.
Joshua SparrowThe 18-year-old was killed on Monday, October 28. That night, police received a call about a man who had been shot at the 41st Precinct. The victim was wounded in the head and body. He was taken to New York Hospital Lincoln Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

The NYPD said as of Friday afternoon, no arrests had been made in connection with the deaths.

Murdered Brooklyn teen wanted to be a songwriter and was ‘very loving’

McNally, a teenager who died Oct. 25, loved to write songs and was “very loving,” his father, McNally Zamor Sr., said in an interview with New York Daily News.

“He graduated from Canarsie High School and wanted to be a songwriter,” his father told the publication, adding that he was his youngest child.

As his father reflected on his son’s death, he told the Daily News he was concerned about gun violence in the area, including Canarsie, a neighborhood in southeast Brooklyn.

“Canarsie has always been a quiet and good place to live,” said the teenager’s father. “Now it has been turned over. And the city too – now they are shooting.”

According to the newspaper, police are not sure what led to the shooting, but they are trying to find out if it may be related to a previous shooting incident.

Saline Martin is a reporter for the USA TODAY NOW team. She is from Norfolk, Virginia – 757. Follow her on Twitter at @SaleenMartin or write to her at [email protected].