A young man tinkering around with a gun in Queens fired off at least two shots, one of which hit a neighbor’s dog, police said Tuesday.
Cops were called to Huron St. near 155th Ave. in Old Howard Beach around 9 a.m. Monday for reports of shots fired, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at a news briefing.
When they arrived, police discovered a bullet hole in a woman’s window and her bleeding Pomeranian, named Arya.
“She brought the dog to the vet and he told her [that] her dog had been shot,” Kenny said. “The round pierced the dog’s leg, near its groin, and nicked its colon.”
Cops investigating the gunfire were lead around the block to a house on Lahn St. near 155th Ave., where a woman said there were two bullet holes in the back of her house and that her son took off.
Police got a warrant to search the woman’s house, where they found weapons in the freezer.
“She panicked, found two firearms and put them” there, Kenny said of the teen’s mother.
Police arrested her son, 18-year-old Joshua Marte, and charged him with criminal possession of a weapon and reckless endangerment.
The teen told cops, “I didn’t mean to hurt anyone,” Kenny said.
The wounded dog will survive her injuries.
