According to the AP, the NYPD quietly deleted the allegations against 15-year-old Camden Lee online and privately admitted Lee was not a suspect in the killing.

At a news conference immediately following the shooting, NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell said the violence was gang-related. He described the suspect as a slim man in his 20s who wore a paint-stained brown shirt and bandana. Lee, who turned 16 in January, wore neither in the photograph released weeks later.

A Brooklyn teenager wrongly accused by police in a fatal shooting at a parade last year is speaking out about the last several terrifying months of experiencing threats.

The NYPD has issued an apology after mistakenly accusing 15-year-old Camden Lee of a deadly shooting at the West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn last September.

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