Man shot to death by 16-year-old stepson in clash over smoking in Brooklyn apartment: report 34%
By Rocco Parascandola58%
4/13/2026, 12:02:25 PM
Topics: Nyc Crime
BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Negativity Bias, and Framing Effect, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 76.7% saturation with 99 hits. Analysis detected 316 faulty-reasoning hits from 129 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 41.9% and a BS Rank of 34% (11,143 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 66.30% of the article peer group.
NYPD cops are hunting for a 16-year-old boy who shot his stepfather to death during an argument over smoking inside their Brooklyn NYCHA apartment, according to a report Monday.
Victim Jamel Davis, 43, was shot in the upper body inside his home in NYCHA’s Walt Whitman Houses on Cumberland Walk near Carlton Ave. in Fort Greene about 10:50 a.m.
Sunday, cops said.
Medics rushed him to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he died.
No arrests have been made as cops try to find the victim’s stepson, who is wanted for questioning.
Davis was shot during an argument with the stepson over smoking inside the apartment, a police source told ABC 7 New York.
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