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.