A 13-year-old boy was shot early Tuesday in Harlem, continuing a troubling trend in the city in which shooting victims are skewing younger, police said.
The teen was hanging out with a group of people in a courtyard outside the Harlem Interfaith apartment building on W. 132nd St. near Bradhurst Ave. just before 1 a.m. when he told police that he heard shots and felt pain in his ankle.
EMS rushed the teen to Bellevue Hospital where he was expected to survive.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the child was targeted or if he was hit with a stray bullet. No one else was injured, and no arrests have been made, police said.
The shooting is the third time in five days in which someone under 16 was hit by gunfire in the city, cops said.
On Sunday night, a stray bullet struck a 12-year-old girl in the shoulder when a barrage of bullets was fired at a group of people on Eastburn Ave. and E. 175th St. in Mount Hope around 9:45 p.m., cops said.
Two adults, a 35-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man were also found shot in the foot and the thigh at the scene and a 22-year-old man hobbled into BronxCare Health System with a gunshot wound to his right foot. All four were treated and expected to survive.
Two days before that, 5-year-old Zamayia Miles was shot in the back as she sat in her father’s car near E. 214th St. and Holland Ave. in the Bronx, cops said. A backfiring car sparked the shooting, which took place outside a makeshift memorial honoring shooting victim Justin Rodriguez, 26, who was gunned down in the area a day earlier, cops said.
Cops on Monday identified two suspects wanted for the shooting and were actively looking for them, cops said.
Acting Police Commissioner Edward Caban visited Zamayia and her parents at Montefiore Medical Center over the weekend
“I visited that little girl to see what she and the family were going through,” Caban said at a press conference Monday. “It was not only heartbreaking, it was infuriating. We promised that we would never rest…
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