The mother of a 4-year-old boy stood screaming for his life after the helpless child took a bullet in the face during a botched Bronx robbery. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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“Keep breathing, baby! Keep breathing!†cried the boy’s desperate mother after the Tuesday night gunfire on a dark Bronx street.
Two eyewitnesses said the woman was also screaming “Call 911!†in the minutes after the shooting that also left his 17-year-old assailant critically injured from a gunshot to the head.
The child and his father were confronted by two would-be robbers — one of them armed — at Grand Ave. and Evelyn Place in University Heights about 10:15 p.m., cops and neighbors said.
The toddler, who neighbors said lives in a domestic violence shelter on the corner, collapsed after he was shot in the face.
The teen bandit took a bullet to the head, then rolled beneath a parked car as his cohort fled. The wounded bandit was possibly shot in a struggle for the weapon with the child’s dad, sources told the Daily News.
Police hoped the security cameras on every corner of the intersection will provide an explanation of exactly what happened.
One witness said she heard two gunshots before looking out her apartment window at the carnage below.
The wounded child’s mother and sister were putting up groceries in the homeless shelter where they live when the shooting started, while the boy and his dad were standing outside.
Both the 4-year-old and the shooting suspect were listed Wednesday in critical condition at St. Barnabas Hospital. No arrests were immediately made.
The shooting took place just a block from the June 10 shooting of a 5-year-old boy.
The child was munching on Chicken McNuggets on Grand Ave. near W. 184th St. when a gunman fired into a crowd — hitting the child and two adults. All three of those victims survived.
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