Man hurt in shooting on S.I. highway
A 4-YEAR-OLD Queens girl dodged death Saturday after falling from a second-floor window onto a concrete courtyard, authorities said.
“Oh, baby, oh, baby,” the child’s grandfather wailed as he cradled her limp body in his arms following the mishap.
The girl tumbled out of a window of her family’s home on 77th St. near Jamaica Ave. in Woodhaven about 3 p.m., officials said.
She was rushed to Jamaica Hospital, where she was conscious and undergoing testing, officials said.
Although the girl’s condition was not immediately available, police said she did not sustain life-threatening injuries.
A heart-stopping cell phone video captured the frenetic aftermath of what police believe was a tragic accident.
The anguished grandfather is seen running down the street with the little girl in his arms.
“Oh baby. Don’t do this to me,” the man howls.
The child, dressed in a pink Tshirt and purple pants, lays motionless in his arms. The grandfather blows in her mouth three times. Then an officer walks over and examines the child.
“She’s breathing,” the cop declares.
But that doesn’t calm the blubbering grandfather who repeatedly breathes into the girl’s mouth and shakes her up and down.
A second officer asks what led to the fall. “She was playing in the bedroom,” a woman says.
The barefooted grandfather continues blowing into the girl’s mouth. “Please, Jesus, bless her,” says the man holding the cell phone. “Please, Lord.”
The sound of sirens grow louder, prompting the grandfather to hustle the child toward the corner.
He hands her off to an FDNY firefighter who lays the girl down on the hood of a silver sedan.
As other first-responders prepare an oxygen mask, the grandfather lays his head on the child’s limp right arm and sobs.
Just before the mask is placed over her face, the girl moves both of her legs.
Once the mask is secured, the first-responders rush her into an ambulance.
Neighbor Joseph Ray said he went outside after hearing a man yelling and screaming.
“He was very upset,” Ray, 53, said referring to the grandfather. “At that point, she was unconscious.”
The two-story home appeared to have window guards on the first floor but not the second. A GUNMAN in a BMW opened fire on an Uber car on the Staten Island Expressway and wounded a passenger who was on his way home from a strip club, officials said Saturday.
The 34-year-old victim, who was grazed in the arm about 4 a.m. Friday, believes he was targeted over an argument he had with a worker at the club.
The victim, who lives in Bloomfied, N.J., was visiting Touch Gentlemen’s Club on Victory Blvd. in Bull’s Head with friends when they ran into a worker they knew, police sources said. The woman was not working that night and appeared agitated as she spoke on her cell phone to someone.
The victim told her to relax and she threw a drink at him, causing her to be thrown out of the club, sources said. When he and two pals later left the club they spotted the woman in a burgundy car, still on the phone.
After an Uber driver picked up the victim and his friends and drove onto the nearby Staten Island Expressway, a white BMW drove up on them and someone inside fired off several shots, grazing the victim’s arm.
The Uber driver stopped on the expressway’s service road and an ambulance was called but the victim refused medical aid, officials said. No arrests have been made.