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Teen shot, killed at Brentwood gathering

Quick ReadA 15-year-old boy was shot in the head and later died at South Side Hospital in Bay Shore.

On Nov. 21, 2009, Christopher Hamilton, 15, a

Photo credit: Handout | On Nov. 21, 2009, Christopher Hamilton, 15, a Brentwood Freshman Center student who went by the nickname Brisko, was among more than 30 kids gathered outside a friend's house for a party on American Boulevard in Brentwood. Several shots were fired from a lawn across the street, police said. Hamilton was shot in the temple and fell to the front lawn. He was taken by ambulance to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, where he was pronounced dead.

A spray of gunfire shattered a gathering at a Brentwood home of school friends, some as young as 12, leaving a ninth-grader dead and his family in shock.

Christopher Hamilton, 15, a Brentwood Freshman Center student who went by the nickname Brisko, was among more than 30 kids gathered about 10 p.m. Friday at the house of a lifelong friend who lived just a block from Hamilton's home.

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