BY ERIK BADIA , THOMAS TRACY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, April 18, 2015, 4:33 PM
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COURTESY RAYA BASCOMDontea Bascom, 16, with his 2-year-old niece. Bascom was shot to death and his 13-year-old friend was hit three times after assailants fired a barrage of bullets near the Marcy Houses complex in Brooklyn Friday night.
If the 16-year-old boy shot to death outside a Brooklyn housing project knew who killed him he took it to his grave, police sources said Saturday.
Dontea (Ted) Bascom refused to talk about who shot him in the groin in a courtyard of the Marcy Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant about 7:15 p.m. Friday before dying at Kings County Hospital later that evening, sources said.
“He was uncooperative ... even when he was going DOA,” a police source said.
“We’re grieving right now,” a relative of Bascom said Saturday. The family was too distraught to say more about the boy, who was a sophomore at ROADS Charter School.
Bascom’s 13-year-old cousin Michael Parnell, who was blasted twice in the chest and once in the leg, has also been uncooperative with investigators, police sources said. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital and expected to survive.
At least 10 shots were fired during the incident, police sources said. The two victims were sitting on bench when they were hit.
After police raided an apartment one of the gunmen was seen running into, 14 people were taken into custody.
Several suspects left the 79th Precinct stationhouse after questioning Saturday morning. Nobody had been charged by Saturday evening, police said.
Cops were investigating a number of leads, including the possibility that the shooting was gang-related and in retaliation for a nearby April 12 shooting that left two people wounded, sources said.
Despite Friday’s gunplay, shootings are down in Bedford-Stuyvesant this year.
There were just two shooting incidents in the 79th Precinct through April 12, down from four shootings during the same period last year, NYPD statistics show. Overall crime in the command is down 8%.
