16-Year-Old Charged After Shooting Outside Bay Shore Home

A 16-year-old is in custody after a shooting outside a Long Island home.

1651 Pine Acres Blvd. in Bay Shore.
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09/04/2022 10:25 a.m.

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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