A 15-year-old girl was killed and five young men were hospitalized with gunshot wounds after two separate shootings in the same neighborhood in Queens. Brandon Bethea was shot in the head just after 11 p.m. Saturday in front of a housing project inFar Rockaway. She was taken to St. John's Hospital, where she died. The victim's boyfriend, Isiah Alston, also 15, told the Daily News that Brandon was not the intended target. "She was coming to see me," he said. "Somebody was shooting. It wasn't meant for her. That's my girl."
He said Brandon, who was with a group of friends, lived in Jamaica queens and was a student at Intermediate School 53. Family members told 1010 WINS radio that Brandon was planning to attend John Adams High School in Ozone Park in the fall. Police were still seeking Brandon's killer Sunday. Six people were arrested in connection in the shootings a few hours later of five men near a restaurant at Beach 21st Street and Mott Avenue in Far Rockaway. A revolver was recovered from a jeep.
This shooting situation is getting out of hand to the point that innocent people are dying. People don’t even feel safe in their own neighborhoods because now these shootings occur in the daytime. All I can say is that we have to be more careful and watch closely to our surroundings.
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