by Ken Walker
New York Times: Trying to Escape Attackers, Teenager Is Shot to Death
November 14, 2007
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A 16-year-old boy running from attackers in Newark yesterday afternoon was fatally shot in the back just as he was climbing over a fence, the police said.
The boy, whose name was not released, toppled over the chain-link fence and landed on a dirty, discarded mattress, according to bystanders who described the shooting. A second youth who was also fleeing escaped, they said.
A number of youths were outdoors near the scene, in the fading light of the late afternoon. Friends and relatives rushed to the victim’s aid, lifted him over the fence and drove him several blocks to University Hospital, where he was soon pronounced dead.
A spokeswoman for the city, Lupe Todd, said that investigators had no immediate comment on possible suspects or a motive. The patrol car left the scene carrying one person whose head was concealed by a blanket, bystanders said.
