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One Teenager Is Killed and Another Is Injured in Shooting Outside Brooklyn Housing Project

Police officers outside the Marcy Houses, a housing project in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where two boys were shot on Friday night.Credit...Michael Nagle for The New York Times

Liam Stack and

One teenage boy was killed and a second was injured in gunfire in the courtyard of a Brooklyn housing project on Friday night, the police said.

One of the boys, Dantee Bastone, 16, was shot in the groin just after 7 p.m. He was taken to Kings County Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead.

The second victim, a 13-year-old, was shot twice in the torso and once in the leg but was expected to survive, the police said. He was being treated at Bellevue Hospital Center. The police did not immediately release his name.

The shootings took place outside 626 Park Avenue, part of the Marcy Houses, a large housing project in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

A hooded sweatshirt spotted with blood lay on the ground along with sneakers and a black backpack. Dantee’s name, printed in neat handwriting, could be seen clearly on the cover of a notebook that poked out of the backpack. Nearby were medical supplies that had been used to treat the teenagers. Dantee lived in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the police said. It was not immediately clear why he was at the Marcy Houses.

The police said an investigation was continuing.

Christian Collado, 27, a resident of the Marcy Houses, said he heard the gunshots from his apartment and watched as the police quickly arrived.

He said the area was normally quiet and that it was rare to see teenagers hanging out in the courtyard, but in recent days the housing project had grown tense.

“There have been a couple of shots in the past couple of days,” he said. “Four days ago, I heard two shots fired at around 2 a.m., then I heard cops come.”

A version of this article appears in print on  , Section A, Page 17 of the New York edition with the headline: Two Boys Shot; One, 16, Dies. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

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