Police are hunting for a ruthless gunman who opened fire on a Brooklyn street Wednesday afternoon, nearly killing a developmentally delayed woman and leaving her family\u2019s beloved dog bleeding from a bullet wound.<\/p>\n
Authorities say the gunman pulled a firearm in broad daylight and brazenly fired a round at an unidentified male \u2014 missing his target and accidentally striking the dog who later had the bullet removed.<\/p>\n
The nephew of Teresa Pezzolla, 64, who was walking her pet when the horror unfolded, told The Post \u201cso basically, my aunt Teresa was walking the dog up to 5th Avenue.\u201d <\/p>\n
Honey, a 7-year-old dog, was shot by a gunman who nearly missed a developmentally delayed woman. (Obtained by The Post) Obtained by The Post<\/p>\n
\u201cShe walks the dog regularly, and she went around the block, and this is where this kid came out of nowhere, opened fire on another person, and instead of hitting the person, hit the dog,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
The reckless shooting erupted at approximately 5:46 p.m. in front of 218 31st Street in Greenwood Heights, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I\u2019m thankful that the bullet didn\u2019t hit my aunt because I think it would have been a lot worse,\u201d continue Pezzolla\u2019s nephew.<\/p>\n
While the sicko\u2019s intended target escaped unharmed, the shooter\u2019s errant bullet slammed into a seven-year-old Honey, a labradoodle.<\/p>\n
Pezzolla, who is developmentally delayed, walked back to the home with the animal, and her sister quickly called an cab and got the pup to an emergency vet.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mother called in a cab right away, got the dog to an emergency room \u2014 and the doctors there were able to pull a 22 caliber right out of the dog,\u201d Pezzolla\u2019s nephew explained.<\/p>\n
A gunman shot a dog, nearly missing a developmentally delayed woman. (CrimeStoppers) CrimeStoppers<\/p>\n
When he got home, he immediately asked Pezzolla where the harrowing attack occurred.<\/p>\n
\u201cI walked my aunt outside, and I told her, \u2018show me exactly where this happened,\u2019 and I had the two police officers follow me from behind and, you know, she was able to point out exactly where this happened,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Nearby police officers happened upon the scene and asked what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n
A gunman shot a dog, nearly missing a developmentally delayed woman. (CrimeStoppers) CrimeStoppers<\/p>\n
\u201cI started looking around 5th Avenue and that\u2019s when two cops rolled up on me and asked me what was going on and I told them. And that\u2019s when the cops jumped into action.\u201d<\/p>\n
Authorities were able to obtain surveillance footage from nearby cameras.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been living in the neighborhood since I was a child,\u201d the nephew explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the first time anything like this has ever happened, a shooting in the area.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy aunt is very shaken up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the NYPD\u2019s\u00a0Crime Stoppers\u00a0Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the\u00a0Crime Stoppers\u00a0website at\u00a0https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/<\/a>, on X @NYPDTips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are hunting for a ruthless gunman who opened fire on a Brooklyn street Wednesday afternoon, nearly killing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3121,98,100,99,303,57,9,24,63,3980,58],"class_list":["post-327686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-animal-abuse","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-shootings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}