Teen Shot on Basketball Court

Police are searching for two young men in connection to a shooting of a teenage boy in the Bronx. -Photo by NYPD

By Dan Gesslein 

Bronx Voice 

August 31, 2023

BRONX - A teenager was shot in the back on a Bronx basketball court. Now cops are asking for the public’s help to catch the gunmen.

Police released surveillance video of the baby faced suspects wanted in connection with the shooting of a teen.

At around 8 pm on August 12, a 14-year-old boy was playing on the basketball court in a park at East 181st Street and Walton Avenue in University Heights.

As the teen was playing, cops  said two young men approached the ball player. Without warning one of the men pulled out a handgun and fired off multiple rounds.

The teen basketball player was struck in the lower back and the right leg. 

Cops said the suspects ran out of the park and were seen heading toward the 183rd Station of the Number 4 train. 

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EMS rushed the victim to to New York- Presbyterian/Weil Cornell Medical Center.

Cops said the fist suspect is a light-skinned male who is around 5 foot 6 to 5 foot 8 tall with a slim build. He was last seen wearing dark hooded sweatshirt, light colored pants and a blue baseball cap.

The second suspect is male with a light complexion and a slim build. He was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, black pants, black and yellow sneakers and his hair in a ponytail.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. 

All calls are strictly confidential.