15-year-old gunned down in the street

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - It happened after school at a westside bus stop. Homicide detectives want to know who gunned down a 15-year-old high school freshman at Grant and West Delavan.

A witness described, "I heard like five or six shots, like a firecracker."

It was just after one in the afternoon when a 15-year-old boy was shot in back near a bus shelter at West Delavan and Grant Street. He then crossed Grant Street, collapsed, and later died at ECMC. He was a freshman at Lafayette High School and had left school for the day only to be killed about five blocks away.

A motive is unclear. This happened to be "Freshmen Friday," an unofficial hazing day for freshmen usually involving just eggs or water balloons. It also happened about 90 minutes after neighbors say a fight spilled out of Lafayette High School onto the sidewalk outside. But police are still investigating, and are expected to examine footage from a street camera near the shooting scene.

Chief of Detectives Dennis Richards of the Buffalo Police Department said, "Any information from the public, any footage from any building or camera in the area will be analyzed and looked at, and if there's any further information to put out as far as who a suspect might be."

"This don't make no sense. Kids getting killed left and right, and to me, it seems like all the younger people leaving instead of the older people, and it just seems like, right now, this is gonna have to finally end and make it stop now," said a witness.

This is the third murder in three days. Police found the body of a man shot on Scheule Street Wednesday morning, and that night in Riverside, 21-year-old Fernando Vega was shot to death in the Shaffer Village Homes.

Corie Cason from Shaffer Village said, "Ya know, with these types of occurrences going on, it actually makes me feel like looking for a new place to live."