18-year-old shot, killed in Williamsburg Brooklyn, NYPD says

A man killed in Williamsburg on Wednesday evening is among the latest teenagers to be fatally shot in New York City this year.

Police officers found Jayden Velasquez, an 18-year-old Brooklyn resident, shot in the face and torso near the intersection of Havemeyer Street and South 2nd Street in Williamsburg just before 8 p.m. Wednesday, according to the NYPD.

Velasquez was taken to Bellevue Hospital, police said, where he was pronounced dead…

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