A 17-year-old boy was shot — possibly by a Citi Bike-riding gunman — outside a Bronx housing development Thursday night, hours after two other boys his age were struck by gunfire in the borough, cops said.
The teen was blasted in the hip as he walked on the grounds of NYCHA’s Forest Houses on Trinity Avenue near East 165th Street in Longwood just before 10 p.m., police said.
He was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
The suspect fled southbound on Trinity Avenue, possibly on a Citi Bike, cops said.
The violence came several hours after two 17-year-old boys — both apparent innocent bystanders — were shot and wounded around 1:20 p.m. at East 176th Street and Anthony Avenue in the Mount Hope neighborhood, police said.
One of the teens was shot in the right arm, the other in the neck, police and sources said.
Neither boy appeared to be the intended target of the shooter, but were struck in the crossfire, based on preliminary details, sources said.
Both were taken to Columbia University Irving Medical Center, where they were listed in stable condition, police said.
Neither victim has a criminal history, and they were shot from a distance, according to the sources.
The 37-year-old mother of the boy struck in the arm, who declined to share her name, told The Post Friday that she is “nerve-wrecked” by the violence.
“I’m grateful my son came home, I’m grateful my son is alive, he is functioning, no brain damage, he can walk, he can talk, he can still wipe his own butt,” she said. “As far as we are concerned, we are blessed.
“I don’t believe he or his friends have any enemies around here. It’s not like there was a fight going on or any altercation going on.”
Now, the still-stunned mom said she is planning on keeping her son in the safety of their home.
“From the looks of things, it doesn’t seem like he is going to be outside,” she said. “I feel like he is safer inside.”
The troubling violence comes just days after NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch revealed that youth violence has skyrocketed in the Big Apple — and placed the blame on the state’s contentious “Raise the Age” law.
