Claudia Quaatey, 16, is in a medically induced coma after being shot while sitting in an SUV outside a Queens park following a fight she and her friends got into a fight with another girl.
after getting into a playground fight is now “brain dead,” her grieving father told The Post on Thursday.
“She had gotten into a fight,” her father Albert Quaatey, 65, said at the family home in Queens. “My daughter, she doesn’t happen to be in fights like that. Just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Quaatey said his daughter dreamed of becoming a nurse and liked to braid hair for her friends — and told him she was on her way to do just that when she was shot while sitting in a Hyundai SUV, which was parked near the park and outside PS 015 Jackie Robinson elementary school, police said.
“Usually I tell her, school days, I don’t want her going out,” he said. “It wasn’t late, but still. They always called me old-school, but there are these kinds of problems. Too many younger people are being killed. I tried, but how much can you do? “It’s terrible,” the father said. “We’re devastated. You never want to hear this kind of news. I’m standing here in a state of shock.”The shooting comes as the number of under-18 victims of gun violenceAccording to NYPD statistics, there were 153 underage shooting victims in the five boroughs last year, a jump from 138 in 2021 and 125 in 2020 — and more than double the 2017 figure of 75.
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