New Bedford teen dies after being shot at New Year's party

By Globe Staff

A New Bedford teenager stayed up late to celebrate the beginning of the new year. Then the party turned deadly: Edwin Medina, 15, was shot in the stomach and later died of his wounds.

The shooting happened at a party on County Street in New Bedford at about 3 a.m. on Tuesday, New Year's Day, prosecutors said.

Medina was rushed to St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford, then transported to Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, where he died late Wednesday, the Bristol County district attorney's office said in a statement.

The case is being investigated as a homicide by local and state police and the district attorney's office.

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