15-Year-Old Boy Hospitalized After Shooting On Nostrand Avenue, Near Flatbush Avenue: 70th Precinct

A shooting at 2154 Nostrand Avenue, by Flatbush Avenue, sent one 15-year-old boy to Kings County Hospital with a graze wound Thursday evening, 70th Precinct Detective Dominick Scotto told us last night.

The detectives are investigating the matter, and we’ll update this as soon as we find out any more information. An arrest has not yet been made, police said.

In addition to this incident, there have been a number of crimes in the area, including the fatal shooting of neighbor Raphael Kurton at Newkirk Avenue and E. 17th Street, Molotov cocktails being thrown into a health clinic on Newkirk, an armed robbery of a Foster Avenue deli, and an armed robbery of a Church Avenue vegetarian restaurant.