Two teens shot near Brooklyn high school by teenage gunman: authorities
The teens, a 17-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, were wounded steps from the Progress High School for Professional Careers in Brooklyn, authorities said. The gunman, believed to be around 15-years-old, has not been caught.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, January 20, 2015, 4:37 PM
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CCTVThis CCTV image was taken Tuesday outside 789 Grand St., Brooklyn. The boy in the blue hooded top at left is about to fire on the boy in yellow trousers running beside him, but misses the shot.
A gunman wounded two teens when he went on a shooting rampage just paces from a Brooklyn high school Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.
The shooter, who is believed to be about 15-years-old, shot a 17-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl on Grand St. near Bushwick Ave. in Williamsburg after getting into a fist fight with about 15 kids at 2:50 p.m., just as students from the nearby Progress High School for Professional Careers were leaving class for the day.
CCTVThe bullet from the missed shot went through a nearby window in Brooklyn.
“He pulled a .22 and started shooting at the crowd. He hit the boy in the left arm. He hit the girl in the left leg. The boy ran off and she ran and fell down over there in the street,” a manager at a the supermarket across the street, who gave his name as George, said.
The manager, who took pictures of the attack, said the gunman then tried to chase down another man, his apparent target, and fired and missed, instead shooting through the front window of the supermarket.
“He chased one guy down, shot and missed him,” George said. “He shot out my front window.”
Up to five shots were fired, a police source said.
Cops chased the suspect west down Grand St. but lost him when he “blended in with the other students,” according to a police source.
Another witness, Braodilio Filed, 53, who was selling empanadas near to the shooting, said he rushed some students into a nearby pharmacy after the shots were fired.
“I was scared, I grabbed some kids and took them into the pharmacy,” Filed said. “It’s crazy out here.”
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It was not immediately revealed if the two teen victims went to Progress High School.
First responders rushed the unidentified victims to Bellevue Hospital where they were both in stable condition, officials said.
The shooter, who was wearing a black jacket, blue hooded-sweatshirt, yellow pants, and white sneakers, is still at large, cops said.
