One of the two men suspected of wounding a 5-year-old girl in a Bronx stray bullet shooting has been nabbed out of state, police sources said Thursday.
The suspect is in police custody in Pennsylvania and is about to go through extradition proceedings so he can be brought back to the city to be charged, the source said.
The apprehended suspect’s name was not immediately released.
On July 3 cops identified the two suspects as Austin Morrishow, 25, and Curtis White, 26 in the shooting of little Zamayia Miles.
The little girl was sitting in the back of her father’s car at E. 214th St. and Holland Ave. on June 30 when the sound of a backfiring Volkswagen Jetta near a memorial for a murder victim sparked an exchange of gunfire, witnesses and police said.
As the pair allegedly opened fire, a stray bullet pierced a gold Nissan, wounding Zamayia.
Both suspects have a criminal history and Morrishow is a suspected member of the Mac Ballers Gang, according to police.
Zamayia’s father hit the gas only to stop outside a nearby laundromat after realizing his daughter had been hit, a witness told the Daily News.
“Please! Please! Help! Help!” witness Zoila Peguero recalled the father screaming as he held his wounded daughter in his arms.
Zamayia was rushed to Montefiore Medical Center, where she’s recovering, her mother, Shanise Miles, said.
“She’s aware of what’s going on. And thankfully she is now stable,” Miles told the Daily News. “This shouldn’t have happened to her. I’m devastated.”
The memorial where the shooting occurred honored Justin Rodriguez, who was slain the night before Zamayia was shot.
Rodriguez showed up wounded at Montefiore Medical Center and died from gunshot wounds to his chest and shoulder. A second man, 34, was shot in the leg and is expected to survive, cops said.
There have been no arrests in Rodriguez’s slaying.
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