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.

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.

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.

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

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.