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Sunday 18 May 2008

Brandon Bethea shot to death outside a Queens housing project

15-year-old girl was shot to death outside a Queens housing project Saturday night by a bullet meant for someone else, cops and witnesses said.Brandon Bethea was hit in the head when gunfire erupted in the courtyard of the Redfern Houses in Far Rockaway shortly after 11 p.m., cops and witnesses said. "She was coming to see me," said the victim's stunned boyfriend, Isaiah Alston, 15, who lives in the project. "Somebody was shooting. It wasn't meant for her. That's my girl." He said Brandon, who was with a group of friends, lived in Jamaica and was a student at Intermediate School 53. She liked to dance, he said. Brandon was rushed to Jamaica Hospital, where she was pronounced dead in the emergency room. Cops were continuing to investigate early Sunday morning.

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