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.

The NYPD apologized for wrongfully accusing 15-year-old Camden Lee in a fatal parade shooting and for not correcting their social media post for five months.

The police posted photos of Camden Lee, 16, on social media and said he was wanted for the shooting. Only after five months did they admit they were wrong.

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

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