Sunday, July 5, 2009

6/16/09: 06/16/09 06:56 AM Cyclist, 14, shot in head, dies after brief coma

Buffalo homicide investigators have issued an appeal to the public for any information on the slaying of a 14- year-old city boy over the weekend.

Christian Portes had become a fixture on the 400 block of Niagara Street, spending each evening on a lawn chair below his family’s second-floor apartment. Authorities at a youth counseling center had imposed a curfew on him, and his family said he was doing his best to honor it, but a slip over the weekend cost him his life.

At 12:35 a. m. Saturday, while riding his bicycle home from a West Side party, a gunman approached him at Maryland Street and Whitney Place and shot him in the head, family members said.


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