East Flatbush just before midnight: 16-year-old girl shot in the butt by apparent stray bullet after violent altercation on NYC street corner

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16-year-old girl struck by apparent stray bullet after violent altercation on NYC street corner

The girl – who police believe was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time — was wounded while a group of men fought nearby at the intersection of Linden Boulevard and Utica Avenue in East…

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16-year-old girl struck by apparent stray bullet after violent altercation on NYC street corner​

By
Amanda Woods


July 28, 2023 10:19am
Updated

Police believe the 16-year-old female victim was struck by a stray bullet. Seth Gottfried
A 16-year-old girl was struck by an apparent stray bullet during a violent dispute on a Brooklyn street corner late Thursday, cops said.
The girl — who police believe was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time — was wounded while a group of men fought nearby at the intersection of Linden Boulevard and Utica Avenue in East Flatbush just before midnight, authorities said.
One of the men pulled out a gun and shot a 29-year-old male target, police said.
The gunman also fired a round that apparently went astray and struck the teen girl in the buttocks, authorities said.
The injured girl was taken to Maimonides Medical Center, where she was listed in stable condition.
The shot man was struck in the torso and leg and taken to the Kings County Hospital Center, also in stable condition.

A 29-year-old man who was shot in the torso and leg is believed to have been the intended target in the wounding of a 16-year-old girl, an apparent innocent bystander.Seth Gottfried
No arrests have been made.


At least two other shootings were reported overnight, cops said.


A 38-year-old man was shot in the neck on Lafayette Avenue near Soundview Avenue in the Clason Point section of the Bronx around 10:40 p.m. Thursday, police said.


He was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition.



Cops investigate the East Flatbush, Brooklyn, scene where a teenage girl was shot by a suspected stray bullet. Seth Gottfried
Then around 12:30 a.m. Friday, an 18-year-old man was blasted in the leg on the grounds of NYCHA’s Polo Grounds Towers on Frederick Douglass Boulevard near West 155th Street in Harlem, police said.


He was taken to Harlem Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.



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The male suspect fled in a sedan, cops said.


No arrests have been made in either of those shootings, either.