PARK SLOPE — A 14-year-old boy was arrested after pulling a gun on another teen who wanted to fight him, according to a police report.
The confrontation happened Feb. 29 at 1:40 p.m. on the corner of Seventh Avenue and Sixth Street. A 15-year-old boy told police he was following the 14-year-old with the intention of fighting him, according to the report.
The 14-year-old pulled out a silver gun and "put it to his face," then ran south on Seventh Avenue, the report states.
The next day, police arrested the boy who brandished the gun, the report states.
Other recent crimes in the 78th Precinct include the following, with all details from police reports:
► A man who was visiting a patient at New York Methodist Hospital had two windows on his car smashed after a confrontation over a parking spot March 4. The Staten Island man told police that after he parked his 1994 Mitsubishi Mirage on Sixth Street and Seventh Avenue, a man threatened to smash his windows and claimed that the Mitsubishi driver had taken his parking spot. After returning from his visit to the hospital, the Mitsubishi driver discovered that two windows in his car had been smashed.
► A bike was stolen from the basement hallway of a building on St. Mark's Place near Fourth Avenue on March 4.
Overall, major crime in the 78th Precinct has dropped 24 percent this year compared to the same period in 2015, according to the most recent statistics from the NYPD. There were 99 major crimes reported between Jan. 1 and Feb. 28, 2016 and 131 major crimes during that period in 2015.
Editor's note: The 78th Precinct no longer provides information to the media on open cases involving major crimes such as robbery, rape, burglary and felony assault. Some information on those crimes can be found on the NYPD's CompStat 2.0 website and on the NYPD's NYC Crime Map.
