18-year-old shot in the head in Brooklyn dies days later

A teenager who was clinging to life after being shot in the head in Brooklyn on Monday has died, police said Thursday.

Cops responding to a 2:30 a.m. 911 call discovered Jeremiah Griffiths, 18, with a gunshot wound to his head outside of a building near the corner of Myrtle Ave. and Tompkins Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant police said.

EMS rushed Griffiths to Kings County Hospital in critical condition. The teen died on Wednesday after initially surviving for two days, cops said on Thursday…


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