Man Arrested for Firing Shot That Hit Teenage Girl in LIC Apartment

Police arrested the man accused of firing a shot that hit a 15-year-old girl in the Queensbridge North Houses in Long Is...

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LONG ISLAND CITY — A 37-year-old man was arrested for firing a gunshot in the Queensbridge North Houses that struck a teenage girl in the hand earlier this week, police said.

Day Bryant, a Harlem resident, was taken into custody Wednesday and charged with criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment, the NYPD said.

The bullet, allegedly fired from Bryant’s gun, hit the left hand of a 15-year-old girl on the third floor of 40-15 10th Street about 5:15 a.m. The teenager, whom police did not identify, was taken to New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Bryant has eight prior arrests that include drug possession and criminal trespassing, police said.

The gun violence against children and teens over the summer has continued into the fall.

In Brooklyn last week, Kaiim Vieira, 17, was shot dead outside the Boys and Girls High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Over the summer, Ronald Wallace, a 13-year-old Brownsville boy, was shot in the back and killed on August 24.

Earlier that month, four teenagers were shot on a Brownsville playground and on National Night Out Against Crime on August 7 another four teenagers were wounded in shootings in The Bronx and Harlem.

And in July, 4-year-old Lloyd Morgan was shot and killed by a stray bullet while playing in a Bronx playground.