In a statement sent to news outlets Sunday, the NYPD said an image it circulated on social media of Camden Lee, a 15-year-old Brooklyn resident, “mistakenly stated that he was wanted for the fatal shooting” at the West Indian American Day Parade in September.

After the NYPD stated that 15-year-old Camden Lee was a person of interest in a mass shooting, it became aware that he was no longer a suspect in the case. Instead of informing the press and public, the NYPD knowingly withheld the information despite pleas from the Lee family.

A New York teen is trying to put his life back together after he was wrongly identified as a suspect in a mass shooting.

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.

His family wants the police to apologize for putting out an image of him that is still circulating on social media. CBS News New York's Naveen Dhaliwal reports.

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.