A 75-year-old cyclist was hit in the face by a stray bullet, leaving him “dripping with blood” during a broad daylight shooting that also left a teen girl wounded Thursday in Queens, cops and sources said.
The violence unfolded when a pair of scooter-riding gunmen allegedly opened fire, aiming for a 17-year-old rival — but instead struck his 14-year-old girlfriend in the leg and the bike rider in the jaw on 243 Street and Weller Avenue in Rosedale around 4:30 p.m., according to sources and police.
The senior citizen was collecting cans on his bike when the errant bullet smacked into his face, police said.
He was “dripping with blood from his face,” witnesses told CBS New York.
“He was telling the ladies, ‘Call an ambulance! Call an ambulance,” a witness said of the wounded man.
His son called the shooting “sickening” on Friday.
“It’s pretty traumatizing,” he told The Post, adding his dad was still sedated at the hospital.
“You don’t think you would be in this situation. You see it all the time on the news, but it’s something we’re seeing too often on the news right now,” he added about Big Apple crime.
“It’s sickening.”
The shooting startled nearby residents.
“That’s scary. That’s really scary. I take care of my grandmother and she’s 100-years-old,” a frightened neighbor told the station.
“That’s all I need, for her to walk out into the living room and a shot comes through a window and hits her.”
Police said both victims were in stable condition following the mayhem.
Cops found the scooter used during the bloodshed and three teen boys — a 13-year-old, 14-year-old and 15-year-old — were taken into custody, according to sources.
