Stray shot hits NYU student at downtown B’klyn campus

Someone’s violent beef erupted in gunfire at NYU’s downtown Brooklyn campus on Tuesday, and a student unlucky enough to be passing by caught a bullet in the arm, authorities said.

The stray bullet hit its 19-year-old victim shortly after 3 p.m. near 6 MetroTech Center, which houses NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering and a Starbucks store.

Medics took the student to Bellevue Hospital, and law enforcement sources said his wounds were not life-threatening.

Police believe three suspects emerged from behind the back of NYU’s Bern Dibner Library, leaned against a campus map sign, and fired four shots, said John Miller, NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information.

Witnesses saw the victim running into the school, bleeding, with “holes in his arm,” a student told the Daily News.

“It was like one hole in the front, one hole in the back. It was in the upper arm,” said a 19-year-old student who gave his name as Alex. “He was like, ‘I’m a student here, I just got shot!’ Something like that.”

Other students rushed into the school building for shelter, Alex said.

“They were just like, shocked,” he said. “This has never happened this close.”

University officials confirmed the victim was an NYU student.

“Our understanding is that the shooting was the result of a dispute that originated elsewhere in the vicinity,” NYU spokesman John Beckman said in a statement, adding that the university is “deeply concerned” about the student’s well-being.

“The University is also concerned about the occurrence of a shooting so near one of our buildings. We will be talking with city law enforcement authorities about the episode and what can be done to enhance safety in the area,” he said.

Riley, 19, a sophomore at the engineering school, said she was in class when she heard three gunshots through an open window. The school was not locked down, she said.

“My teacher was just kind of like, ‘OK, let’s stay here and see what’s happening.’ And once we heard the sirens we knew it was being dealt with,” Riley said.

“NYU sent a text message .... All they said was, ‘Police activity near 6 Metrotech.’ And it was super vague. We get messages like that all the time, police activity near this or that, and they mostly get ignored because it doesn’t sound like a serious thing.”

About 45 minutes before the Metrotech shooting, officers responded to a shooting at Jay and York streets in which a man, 27, was shot in the ankle, cops said.

“Because of the proximity and the timing, we’re looking into whether or not there was a connection between the two,” Miller said.