"The shooting happened around 8:45 p.m. on Nov. 1 in front of an apartment building on Eastern Parkway, within the 71st Precinct. Police said the suspect approached the victim, Tyson Harps of the Bronx, and fired multiple shots, striking him in the body. Harps was pronounced dead at the scene. Harps, also known as TJ, was a linebacker for the Bronx Justice League youth football team. In a statement posted to Instagram, the team called his killing devastating and urged an end to gun violence."
"Harp's mother told ABC 7 that on the night of the shooting, the 16-year-old had traveled from the family's home in the Bronx to see friends in Brooklyn and had been in communication with his family shortly before the shooting. When word broke of the shooting, she said she raced to be by his side. I sat and watched my son lying there for hours before being picked up, and I felt that my son felt alone, she told the outlet."
Police released surveillance images of a man wanted in the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Tyson Harps in Crown Heights on Nov. 1. The shooting occurred around 8:45 p.m. on Eastern Parkway outside an apartment building in the 71st Precinct, where the suspect approached Harps and fired multiple shots, striking him in the body; Harps was pronounced dead at the scene. Harps, known as TJ, was a linebacker for the Bronx Justice League youth football team and had recently been accepted to a school. The team urged an end to gun violence. Harp's mother said she arrived after the shooting and felt her son had been left alone. Police said the suspect fled on foot and has not been located, and they are asking the public for help identifying him.
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