Innocent girl, 15, shot and wounded after gunfire erupts in Bronx
Paytton King, a freshman at Grace H. Dodge Career and Technical School – who is part of a local violence prevention program – was struck by a stray about 6:45 p.m. at 183rd Street and Crotona Avenue in Belmont, according to cops and her grandma Pamela King, 57.
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“ said these boys were riding around the block and circling 15, 20 times like they were looking for somebody,” King added. “Then finally I guess as it got darker they shot into the gate. They left. They ran off.”“They just need to be caught,” the teen’s grandmother said. “They need to be handled because this is not going to be the end of it. They are just going to keep doing it.”
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