Brooklyn boy, 12, is SHOT in the chest but expected to survive Dailymail.com Reporter © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo
A 12-year-old boy was shot in the chest on a Brooklyn street Saturday night in another grim statistic in New York City s sharply worsening rate of gun crime.
He is expected to survive, the New York Post reports.
The incident comes as shootings have increased 77 percent over the past year, as of March statistics, according to the New York Police Department.
The boy was walking in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn just before 10 p.m. on Saturday when he came across two groups fighting.
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Brooklyn boy, 12, is SHOT in the chest but expected to survive
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