Boy, 15, fatally shot in Harlem cried out as he bled on sidewalk: ‘I don’t want to die’
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A 15-year-old boy was fatally shot in Harlem on Wednesday evening, desperately pleading for his life before dying from his wounds.

Jihad Pack, 15, inset, was fatally shot and a 57-year-old man sitting in a plastic chair was wounded in a shooting on W. 115th St. near Malcolm X Blvd. inside NYCHA's Martin Luther King Jr. Towers on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026. (Kerry Burke / New York Daily News)
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A 15-year-old boy gunned down just steps away from his home in Harlem cried out desperately in fear as he lay dying on the sidewalk, “Please! Please, I don’t want to die!”

The sad moment was recounted by a family friend of Jihad Pack, who desperately tried to stop the youth’s bleeding as he lay pleading for his life.