A 17-year-old in Harlem was shot and killed yesterday after a man was turned away from a party at his family’s bodega. Last night Ruben Larios was socializing with family and friends at Malinche Deli, near the Harlem River Drive. All was well, until an unwanted guest showed up—an unidentified acquaintance who was turned away at the door. But Larios hadn’t seen the last of him: later, around 11:30 pm he ran into the spurned guest in the lobby 381 Edgecomb Avenue, where he shot him twice in the chest. The teen was taken to Harlem Hospital where he was pronounced dead, reports the NY Post. No arrests have been made yet.
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