Two teens killed within minutes in unrelated shootings
Two teens were shot to death minutes apart early Sunday in separate incidents in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Carlton Bright, 19, was found lying on Pacific Street in Crown Heights with a gunshot wound to the stomach about 1 a.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Bright’s step-father, Donald Oats, 44, told the Daily News that Bright tried to break up a fight before he was killed.
In the second shooting, Cheybenne Baez, 17, was found shot in the back about 1:15 a.m. on East 128th Street in Harlem, and was pronounced dead at the hospital.
A 30-year-old man was also hurt and hospitalized with a gunshot wound in the thigh.
Police had no suspects in either shooting.
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