In a statement sent to news outlets Sunday, the NYPD said an image it circulated on social media of Camden Lee, a 15-year-old Brooklyn resident, “mistakenly stated that he was wanted for the fatal shooting” at the West Indian American Day Parade in September.

According to Wylie Stecklow, a civil rights attorney who is also representing the family, the department's inability to own up to a significant mistake is a troubling development

A teenager has become the subject of a barrage of online vitriol after NYPD posted an image of him online, misidentifying him as a mass shooter.

A New York teen is trying to put his life back together after he was wrongly identified as a suspect in a mass shooting.

The police posted photos of Camden Lee, 16, on social media and said he was wanted for the shooting. Only after five months did they admit they were wrong.

In its updated statement, the police department said the 15-year-old teen was a “person of interest” in the shooting, which remains unsolved,

New York City police apologized for mistakenly accusing a teenager of a fatal shooting at a Brooklyn parade, then failing to retract the false allegation for nearly five months, despite knowing it was incorrect.