Overview

• Sanjay Samuel, 13, was shot in the head around 8:20 a.m. Monday in the strip-mall parking lot at Linden and Springfield boulevards in Cambria Heights.
• Police say surveillance shows a scooter-riding assailant approached Samuel and his friends, exchanged words, fired a single round, and fled.
• The suspect remains at large; investigators described him as having an afro, wearing a white hoodie and white sneakers, and carrying a backpack marked “Jaws.”
• Samuel was taken to Cohen Children’s Medical Center in critical condition, was later declared brain-dead, and was pronounced dead on Wednesday, according to his family.
• The shooting site is a common student gathering spot and the same corner where 13-year-old Kevin Miller Jr. was killed in 2009, deepening neighborhood grief as detectives ask the public for tips.