A 16-year-old boy accidentally fired a bullet through the floor of his second-floor Brooklyn home into his downstairs neighbor’s apartment, then apologized for any inconvenience, police sources said Wednesday.
The teen, who is not being named by the Daily News because of his age, first claimed the shot he fired inside his New Jersey Ave. apartment near Sutter Ave. in East New York was a heavy object he had dropped on the floor.
“It was a ball,” he said. “I dropped it.”
But the lame excuse was easily dismissed when the 75-year-old tenant found the bullet the teen fired on her floor. The slug, cops said, had punched a hole clean through the teen’s floor and the woman’s ceiling.
The incident began around 1:20 p.m. when the first-floor tenant’s 35-year-old daughter heard a loud noise from the apartment upstairs.
She told her mother about it and questioned the teen when she saw him, but he shrugged it off, claiming he had dropped a heavy ball.
When the mother returned home that evening, she found the bullet and the bullet hole, officials said.
When confronted again, the teen apologized for firing off the round, a police source with knowledge of the case said.
The tenant called police, who charged the teen with reckless endangerment at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The gun was not recovered, cops said.
The teen’s arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court was pending Wednesday.
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