Police say they’re looking for a perp who shot a pellet gun at a woman holding a 2-month-old baby girl in a twisted drive-by Friday on Staten Island.
The suspect, who was a passenger inside a silver sedan, lowered his window to fire off shots from a pellet gun around 7:07 p.m. near Jerome Rd. and Benton Ave. in Old Town, striking the 42-year-old woman in the back as she was cradling the infant, police said. Luckily, the young child was not hit.
The car with the unidentified assailant took off heading west on Evergreen Ave.
The victim refused medical attention from EMS at the scene as she was in stable condition following the incident.
The shooting comes after a pellet gun attack spree in Brooklyn last month. A trio of troublemakers sped through Williamsburg in a white car, shooting pellet guns and gel guns at people dressed in traditional Hasidic Jewish garb during Passover week, hitting at least seven persons over a two-day possible hate crime spree, a police source said.
Loyall White, 53, and Jermaine Lincoln and Iesha Cintron, both 30, were arrested following those incidents.
It wasn’t immediately clear from police if this latest pellet gun attack is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls are confidential.
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