A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot in the forehead in Brooklyn Friday and police say he and a friend may have been playing with the gun.
Nijee Thomas was found dead on a bed at his friend's East New York apartment around 11:15 a.m., police said.
Detectives were questioning the victim's 16-year-old pal who was in the room with Thomas on Barley St. when he died, police said. No one has been charged.
Police sources said the leading theory was that the boys were playing with the silver handgun when it fired accidentally. The older boy ran from the apartment at the Belmont-Sutter Turnkey Houses after the shooting, witnesses told police.
A short time later, cops found a silver semi-automatic handgun stuffed inside a plastic bag around the corner on Jerome St., police said.
Investigators believe it was the gun that killed Thomas and that his friend ditched it while sprinting from the scene, police said. Cops caught up to the older boy and hauled him off to the 75th Precinct stationhouse. Police were trying last night to figure out where the kids got the gun.
"He was a good kid," said the dead teen's mother, who wouldn't give her name. "He never had any trouble [and] he'd never been arrested."
The woman said she moved her family from the housing projects because it was too dangerous - but her son insisted on visiting his friends.
"He wasn't supposed to be here," the woman said. "We used to live here . . . but we got out."
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