A 14-year-old boy was shot in the leg on his way to school Wednesday morning — the second time in two weeks someone under 18 has been hit by gunfire, cops said.
The teen had just left his apartment in NYCHA’s Soundview Houses on Rosedale Ave. near Seward Ave. when shots rang out about 7:30 a.m., cops said.
Medics rushed the teen to Jacobi Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the left leg. He is expected to survive.
Police investigate after a 14-year-old boy was shot on Rosedale Ave. in the Bronx on Wednesday. (Gardiner Anderson / New York Daily News)
The gunman, who was dressed all in black, ran off. No arrests have been made.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the victim was the gunman’s intended target, police said. Several shots were fired, with at least one bullet hitting a nearby car window.
Cops were scouring the area for surveillance footage in the hopes of tracking down and arresting the shooter.
Police investigate after a 14-year-old boy was shot on Rosedale Ave. in the Bronx on Wednesday. (Gardiner Anderson / New York Daily News)
On April 27 in Queens, a 15-year-old boy was left paralyzed after he was shot in the back on a Manhattan-bound A train at it was approaching the 80th St. station in Ozone Park.
One of the two suspects in the shooting, another 15-year-old boy, was arrested last week, charged with weapon possession for carrying the pistol the shooter used, prosecutors said.
The actual shooter in the Queens shooting has not been caught.
The bloodshed comes as the NYPD amps up its fight against teen gun violence. So far this year through April 19, 29 of the city’s 201 shooting victims have been under age 18, accounting for 14% of the victims, according to the NYPD.