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$12,000 Reward to Find 13-Year-Old's Killer
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Jen Chung
Published Sep 8, 2008
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After a teenaged boy was shot dead Friday night on West 144th Street in Harlem, the police are now offering a $12,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of his killer. The Daily News reports that Scotty Scott, 13, was on his way to buy sneakers, but stopped to chat with friends playing dice and apparently got caught in some gunfire. The two other teens who were wounded are not cooperating with police. Scott's sister said, "No one had a beef with Scotty. I mean he was 13 - who has a beef with a 13-year-old? We have babies shooting babies right in our streets, right in front of all of us. Something is very wrong with the world."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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