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More Jewish Men Targeted with Paintball Guns in Possible Hate Crime: Police

By Serena Dai | March 31, 2015 10:47am
 Two more Jewish men were shot at with paintball guns in a possible hate crime last week.
Two more Jewish men were shot at with paintball guns in a possible hate crime last week.
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WILLIAMSBURG — A Hasidic Jewish teenager was shot twice with a paintball gun and a man in a car had his windshield struck with paint pellets last Friday — in the second incident in a week that police are investigating as a hate crime.

The 16-year-old boy was walking near Juliana Place and Morten Street around 9 p.m. Friday when a person in a black 2014 Toyota Sienna fired blue paintballs at him, striking him once on his right leg and once on his right arm, police said.

A 53-year-old Jewish man in a vehicle had two paintballs hit his windshield during the same attack, police said.

The incident, which is being investigated by the NYPD as a possible hate crime, came just days after  a 37-year-old Jewish man was shot in the neck with a paintball gun near Kent Avenue and Hewes Street by a person in a black car around 9 p.m., police said.

It was not immediately clear whether the same person committed both assaults, but police are investigating them as a hate crime pattern, officials said.

No one has been arrested for the incidents.