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Scores of New Yorkers gathered outside Brooklyn's Barclays Center Friday for the first "National Day of Remembrance for Gun-Related Homicide Victims" vigil —
A new group brings together students and staff from nine schools, along with police, school safety agents, and civic leaders, to talk about how to make Downtown Brooklyn safer.
Police say the teen was shot once in the stomach across the street from Lincoln High School, off school grounds.
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The victim, struck in the abdomen was rushed to Coney Island Hospital and is expected to survive. The gunman is being sought.
The child, a student at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools, was approached by two boys, one of whom shot him after a fist fight, according to the police.