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At around 7:05 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, a 41-year-old man from Astoria, Queens was attending a baby shower in Bay Shore at 1651 Pine Acres Blvd. when a fight broke out between two teenage girls on the front lawn, Suffolk County Police said.
When the man attempted to break up the fight, a 16-year-old boy fired a handgun striking the man in the leg, said police.
The man was transported to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore for treatment of serious injuries, police said.
A 30-year-old man who witnessed the shooting wrestled the 16-year-old to the ground and held him until SCPD Third Precinct officers arrived and took the boy into custody.
The teen was charged with:
- Second-degree assault
- Second-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
He was held overnight at the Third Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned Sunday, Sept. 4 in Youth Part at First District Court in Central Islip.
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