Police released a photo and video on Saturday of two suspects wanted in connection with the killing of a 17-year-old boy who was shot in the head inside or near a Brooklyn teen hangout.
Ahmir Jordan was struck on New Lots Ave near Miller Ave. in East New York around 8:23 p.m. Wednesday, according to cops. Medics rushed him to Brookdale Medical Center, where he died.
The gunman escaped. There have been no arrests.
In surveillance video provided by police, two young men wearing hoodies, with their hoods up, and surgical-style face masks, are seen quickly ambling down the sidewalk. One appears to have white stripes down the sides of his pant legs.
Jordan lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant, about 2 miles from where he was killed, cops said. It wasn’t immediately clear why he was in East New York Wednesday night.
NYPD detectives are investigating the possibility his death was linked to ongoing gang tensions in the area, a police source with knowledge of the case said.
Cops responding to the area after the shooting found a window shattered by gunfire and a pool of blood inside Hakim’s, a nearby seasonal restaurant that neighbors say has become a teen hangout.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Jordan was inside the eatery when he was shot or ran into the place after being struck by gunfire.
Hakim’s is only open in the summer, one longtime resident, who would only identify himself as Terrance, told the Daily News.
In past years, the restaurant drew mostly an adult crowd, but now it’s “kids, teenagers,” Terrance, 65, said.
“Every day you pass, it’s teenagers out front, inside, smoking and drinking,” he said. “Not even eating food. Just conversation.”
Terrance said he didn’t recognize many of the youths that flock to the eatery.
“They’re not from around here,” he said. “They’re not like kids that live around here. Once you see too many kids around, you know it’s a problem.”
The East New York resident said Jordan’s death hit him hard because his own 17-year-old nephew was fatally shot several years ago.
“Same way — shot in the head,” he said. “We need to get a grip on this s—.”
Jordan’s death follows on the heels of multiple teens being killed or wounded by gunfire in the city this month, mostly in the Bronx, officials said.
On Aug. 14, a 17-year-old boy was wounded after a gunman shot him in the chest — twice — across the street from a Bronx special needs school on Prospect Ave. near Grote St. in East Tremont, cops said.
Two days earlier, Riley Billingslea, 15, was killed when a teenager shot him in the head in the Castle Arms apartment building, on Claflin Ave. near W. 197th St. in Kingsbridge, around 5:20 p.m., cops said. A 13-year-old boy also grazed by the bullet in that shooting said he was saved by his cell phone — the bullet ricocheting off the device in his hands after it exited his friend’s head.
Just one day earlier, on Aug. 11, a 17-year-old was shot in his head on E. 228th St. near Bronxwood Ave. in Wakefield by a teen gunman spotted fleeing the scene on an e-bike just before 7 p.m., police said. Medics rushed the victim to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition.
And on Aug. 10, John Nunez, 16, was killed when a firearm he and a friend were playing with went off inside a house on Prospect Ave. near E.169th St. around 5:10 a.m., cops said. He died at the scene. Cops questioned the victim’s 18-year-old friend, but he was not immediately charged.