Detectives continue to follow all leads in connection with the shooting of a Fordham-area teenager who is fighting for her life after being shot in the head.
Police were called to Valentine Avenue and East 187th Street, at 11:40 p.m., on Saturday, June 11, and discovered the 15-year old female had been shot in the back of the head as she exited a party inside an apartment building.
Authorities have identified the victim as Yvette Marie Torres, 15, a student of DeWitt Clinton High School. Yvette Marie remains in critical condition at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital.
As of Monday, June 13, police had made no arrests in the case. Witnesses described the assailant as a black male wearing a blue hooded jacket, who fled from the scene on foot after the shooting
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