A
16-year-old girl has been shot dead while babysitting her little cousin inside
their Brooklyn apartment yesterday and cops are now looking for her boyfriend,
police sources said.
Shemel
Mercurius moved four years ago from her native Guyana to the East Flatbush
apartment she shared with her aunt and cousin.
The
teen was with her boyfriend, watching over 3-year-old Josia, when gunfire rang
out and she was hit several times just before 6 p.m. in the sixth-floor pad in
the Flatbush Gardens on Brooklyn Ave. near Foster Ave.
Rescuers
found Shemel semi-conscious and rushed her to Kings County Hospital, but she
couldn’t be saved.
Josia
was unharmed in the bloodshed.
Shemel’s
parents still live in Guyana, said her devastated grandmother, Joan Mercurius,
70.
“I
haven’t been able to reach her parents,” she said. “We brought her here for a
better life. We hoped she could go to college.”
Mercurius
said Shemel was looking forward to finishing up the school year at Edward R.
Murrow High School and taking a summer job.
“She
was so cute, and she grew up so fast,” she said. “This is so terrible.”
Her
boyfriend has not been in sight since the incident happened.
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