18-year-old man was shot as he walked a female friend to a Harlem subway station, police said. It is believed his death was related to his involvement in the Bloods gang, the law-enforcement official said.
The victim, Jonathan Bells, was walking with his companion on Lenox Avenue towards the 135th Street subway station when he was passed by two men walking in the opposite direction who said "40th ain't got nothing on us," the official said. The statement was an apparent reference to a gang that hails from 140th Street, the official said. Upon hearing that, Mr. Bells apparently ran south on Lenox Avenue and was shot by the unknown assailant and collapsed in the cross walk near West 136th Street, the official said.
He was taken to Harlem Hospital, which is one block from the shooting scene, where he died at about 3:20 a.m., police said. His female companion was uninjured, police said.
No arrests have been made in the case, police said. The law enforcement official said Mr. Bell was a known member of the Bloods and had previously been shot in the stomach in October of 2009 and survived. Details of that shooting were not immediately available.
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