Shemel Mercurius moved four years ago from her native Guyana to the East Flatbush apartment she shared with her aunt and cousin.
The teen was with her boyfriend, watching over 3-year-old Josia, when gunfire rang out and she was hit several times just before 6 p.m. in the sixth-floor pad in the Flatbush Gardens on Brooklyn Ave. near Foster Ave.
Rescuers found Shemel semi-conscious and rushed her to Kings County Hospital, but she couldn’t be saved.
Josia was unharmed in the bloodshed.
Shemel’s parents still live in Guyana, said her devastated grandmother, Joan Mercurius, 70.
“I haven’t been able to reach her parents,” she said. “We brought her here for a better life. We hoped she could go to college.”
Mercurius said Shemel was looking forward to finishing up the school year at Edward R. Murrow High School and taking a summer job.
“She was so cute, and she grew up so fast,” she said. “This is so terrible.”
Her boyfriend has not been in sight since the incident happened.
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