Shocking video shows gunman open fire into NYC apartment
Police are looking for a man who opened fire at an occupied apartment in Queens early Sunday morning.
The shooter was caught on surveillance camera firing two bullets at the Jackson Heights building near 91st Street and 35th Avenue just before 4 a.m., according to cops.
Neighbors at the building were shaken by the gunshots.
“I said, ‘Oh boy, this is the Wild, Wild West now!'” one tenant told The Post. “That’s dangerous.”
“There are babies in this building, there are little kids, there are elderly people,” the tenant continued.
“They could have shot anyone. It’s a bullet. It’s not like a knife that cannot go through any surface. A bullet can go through and somebody could lose their life for nothing.”
Another building resident, who said he knows the family, said he was sleeping when the shots roused him — and thought they might be from a car backfiring at first.
“I can’t understand who would do something like that to them,” the man said. “I spoke to the son. He told me what happened. I told him, ‘Stay away from the window and be careful.'”
One of the bullets pierced a window and became lodged in the ceiling of an apartment that had three people inside, cops said.
The other bullet struck the outside of the building. Nobody was injured, police said.
It was not immediately clear if the shooter was targeting the apartment, cops said. Two women, ages 23 and 25, and a 20-year-old man were inside at the time.
“I’m very scared,” one tenant said. “I was thinking about bullet-proof glass but it’s really expensive. I’m thinking about the next thing to do. To move out? It takes a lot of money. I don’t have it.”