The victim, a 37-year-old man, was found shot in the chest at about 9:15 p.m. at the Tompkins Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, behind a Park Ave. building near Tompkins Ave.

New York City police apologized for mistakenly accusing a teenager of a fatal shooting at a Brooklyn parade, then failing to retract the false allegation for nearly five months, despite knowing it was incorrect.

The NYPD apologized for wrongfully accusing 15-year-old Camden Lee in a fatal parade shooting and for not correcting their social media post for five months.

A New York teen is trying to put his life back together after he was wrongly identified as a suspect in a mass shooting.

The police posted photos of Camden Lee, 16, on social media and said he was wanted for the shooting. Only after five months did they admit they were wrong.

In its updated statement, the police department said the 15-year-old teen was a “person of interest” in the shooting, which remains unsolved,

New York City police apologized for mistakenly accusing a teenager of a fatal shooting at a Brooklyn parade, then failing to retract the false allegation for nearly five months, despite knowing it was incorrect.