PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — A 17-year-old boy arrested Monday morning was part of a group responsible for wounding an innocent woman waiting for the bus during a December shooting on Flatbush Avenue, police said.
The teen was among a group of young men on Flatbush Avenue near Hawthorne Avenue on Dec. 18 who shot toward a B41 bus stop there around 3:30 p.m., striking a woman in the shoulder, police said. She was not their intended target, officials said at the time.
The young man was identified in surveillance video of the shooting, police sources said. He has not been arraigned, according to the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office. It’s unclear what charges he will face.
The shooting was part of a gang-related feud that fueled a 38-percent increase in shootings in 2014 over the previous year, the 71st Precinct’s commanding officer said last week.
Shootings in the Hawthorne Street area and near the Ebbets Field apartments in Crown Heights contributed to the pattern in particular, he said.
