Heartbroken family, friends come together to remember teen killed in East Flatbush

Monday, February 27, 2017
EAST FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Heartbroken family and friends came together to remember a 15-year-old who was shot and killed in Brooklyn.



Stray bullets hit Rohan Levy and another teen when gunfire erupted in East Flatbush last Monday.
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Levy dreamed of becoming an architect someday, and was working on getting an internship when street violence came crashing down. He asked permission to go outside last Monday afternoon - his mother said yes. One block away from his home on E. 55th St. and East Flatbush, someone jumped out of a gold Honda Accord, and opened fire, killing Levy and injuring his friend.

"Person who did this, I don't know how you live with yourself," said Levy's grandmother, Jennifer Smith.

Police confirm Levy was not a troublemaker, but one of his friends was wearing red pants, and that may have innocently put them in the middle of gang warfare.



"How can I live here and walk outside? His blood is on the street we live on," said Levy's mother.
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"He was not a troubled child - run opposite way of it. Kind-hearted person," said friend Aliyah McCollum.

The family says Levy's only crime was eating like a teenage boy.

His funeral is scheduled for Friday. His loved ones are now hoping and praying for an arrest.
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