Boy, 13, is murdered near his home in Brooklyn

A 13-year-old boy was shot and killed late Thursday near his home in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood, a law enforcement official said.

Investigators believe the boy, Troy Gill, was returning from a Brooklyn Nets game when he was shot about four blocks from home, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release details.

The killing was the latest in a string of deadly shootings in Crown Heights this week.

Mortally injured, the boy made it nearly two blocks before collapsing at the Children’s Museum, near the corner of Brooklyn Avenue and St. Marks Street, the official said.

The boy was shot twice, once in the arm and once in the chest, the official said. Officers discovered him after receiving multiple 911 calls from people who heard the gunshots, the official said. According to police, the first call came in around 10:40 p.m.

The boy was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital, police said. Investigators found six shell casings on New York Avenue and Bergen Street, the official said, adding that police were still trying to determine a motive early Friday. No arrests had been made and the murder was still under investigation.

On Friday, a few votive candles had been placed outside the six-story apartment building where the boy lived. Two men who refused to identify themselves blocked the entrance to the building and threatened journalists who sought entry.

The killing was at least the third fatal shooting this week in Crown Heights, a gentrifying neighborhood with a large Caribbean and Orthodox Jewish population.

A 37-year-old man died Monday after being shot during an argument at a Franklin Avenue bodega, police said. A 33-year-old man died Wednesday evening after he was shot in the head outside his home on McKeever Place, police said.

Wesley Parnell reporting contributed.