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Man shoots teen in Queens apartment building
Police are searching for a gunman who shot and wounded a 19-year-old inside a apartment building in Far Rockaway earlier this week.
NEW YORK - The NYPD is asking for the public's help finding a man who shot a teenager inside an apartment building in Far Rockaway.
According to authorities, just after 9:40 p.m. on February 22, the victim, a 19-year-old man, was leaving his apartment near Seagirt Avenue and Beach 8th Street when a gunman approached him in the hallway and fired a gun, striking the victim once in the leg.
The shooter ran off and has not been caught.
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EMS took the victim to Jamaica Hospital in stable condition. No one else was hurt in the shooting.
The suspect is described as a man with a dark complexion, roughly in his mid-30s with black hair, and was last seen wearing a blue hooded jacket, brown pants, and brown boots.
Anyone with information is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).