Aspiring teen dancer fatally shot in apparent accident while hanging with friends in Brooklyn building: ‘Loved by so many’

A teenage girl, accidentally shot to death while hanging with friends inside a Brooklyn apartment building lobby, was remembered Tuesday as an aspiring dancer with a sharp wit and a bright future.

Raelynn Cameron, 17, took a single bullet to her chest Monday night inside the building on Eldert Lane near Dumont Ave. in East New York, with police responding to a 911 call at 10:55 p.m., authorities said — just 10 days before her birthday.

“Couldn’t ask for a better little sister,” her older sibling Ralik Smith, 25, told the Daily News. “She was loved by so many … She definitely was the princess, she knew she was spoiled. She was my everything.”

Smith said Cameron, known to her family as “Rae Rae,” was hanging out Monday with a cousin who possibly played a role in the fatal shooting.

“I just want the truth,” he said. “Know the absolute story. Know how it came to an end. Truth and justice.”

According to police sources, the mortally-injured teen told police she was hit by a bullet accidentally fired by one of her friends — but refused to identify the shooter to police as she as rushed away in an ambulance. Cameron died at Brookdale University Hospital a short time later.

Police followed a blood trail from an elevator in the building to an abandoned sixth-floor apartment where Cameron’s friends were found and taken to the 75th Precinct stationhouse for questioning, sources said. No arrests were made — and the gun used in the fatal shooting has not been recovered by police.

The teen, a resident of Far Rockaway in Queens, graduated this past June from the Brooklyn High School of the Arts and just started business classes at CUNY.

“She was an honest and blunt person,” said friend Cierra Samuel Thompson, 18. “Very open. She was also sweet and she was a caring person, always about her school work and getting stuff done. She would never fake her love for you. Do anything to make anyone smile.”

Local dance team director Keanna Henry was among those devastated by the loss of a teen with a bright future.

“She’s so funny, she’s so caring,” said Henry. “She did not deserve at all what happened to her. She is such an entertainer, she lights up the room … She definitely was one of a kind. She’s a person who was going to put a smile on your face no matter what you were going through.”

The victim’s dance teacher recalled their last get-together 12 days ago, with Cameron excited about her coming 18th birthday.

“She knew how to crack jokes at any moment,” said instructor Brandon Vega. “This is hard to come up with words right now and think of everything. She was more than just all these little words.”