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EAST FLATBUSH, Brooklyn (WABC) --Police investigating the death of a [size=inherit]
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Authorities say a young man and a young woman were initially seen getting into the elevator of the building on Brooklyn Avenue in East Flatbush together, but for unknown reasons, the male got off on the floor below the shooting while the female got off on the sixth floor, where the victim lives.
The young man then climbed the stairs and emerged on the sixth floor, where the victim, Shemel Mercurius, was seen in her doorway. When the young man emerged from the stairwell, she closed the door.
The male suspect, apparently holding a gun or a rifle, then pushed his way into the apartment, with the young woman following behind him. After the shooting, the pair fled the building. It all happened around 6 p.m.
Mercurius, a student at Edward R. Murrow High School, was rushed to Kings County Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. She was reportedly semi-conscious when EMS arrived and was able to say the name of a male to police. Her 3-year-old cousin was not injured.
Detectives are looking to talk to people who know her, including her boyfriend, who has not been located.
The victim's father, Dexter Mercurius, said they know who did it.