By MICHAEL WILSON The teenagers were dancing before the squat backdrop of a housing project Saturday night in Far Rockaway, Queens, when the gunfire began.

AP VIDEO AP NEW YORK (AP) - A 15-year-old girl was killed and five men were hospitalized with gunshot wounds after two separate shootings in the same neighborhood in Queens.
Brandon Bethea was shot in the head just after 11 p.m. Saturday in front of a housing project in Far Rockaway. She was taken to St. John's Hospital, where she died.

A 15-year-old girl who was shot in the head yesterday died from her injuries. No arrests have been made in the shooting, but Brandon Bethea was shot shortly before midnight on Redfern Ave. in Queens. She was taken to St. Johns Hospital, but did not survive. Bethea had returned to her old neighborhood in Far Rockaway in order to find a dress for her junior prom, when she was shot. The girl seems to have been a random victim after a man opened fire on a crowd in the street. One resident was despondent about the senseless violence. "All these young babies are dying over nothing."
Separately, police arrested a number of people in relation to an early morning shoot out that wounded

NEW YORK - A 15-year-old girl died and five young men were hospitalized with gunshot wounds after two separate shootings in the same neighborhood in Queens.
The young girl, Brandon Bethea, 15, was shot in the head in front of a housing project on Redfern Avenue in what locals described as a "crossfire turf war."
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