Ghost gun found outside B’klyn school after tip
A masked bicyclist leaped off his bike and stabbed a pedestrian as he walked along a sidewalk on the Upper East Side on Thursday afternoon, police said.
The victim was walking on 63rd St. at Third Ave. just after 1:50 p.m. when the attacker, who was dressed all in black and wore a black mask, pounced on him, cops said.
The cyclist stabbed the man in the back and arm, then fled.
Medics took the victim to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell with injuries that weren’t believed to be life-threatening.
School safety agents found a ghost gun and ammunition in a bag in bushes near a Brooklyn public school Thursday morning — after a young woman called in a tip that her boyfriend was bringing a gun to class, police sources said.
The 18-year-old student has two boyfriends, and she warned school officials that one of them said he’d be bringing a gun to school in his book bag, sources said.
School safety agents were on alert, and stopped both boyfriends. The first one to enter apparently didn’t have a gun, and the second wasn’t carrying a book bag, sources said, so the school safety agents did a perimeter search.
They found the bag at about 11 a.m. on Putnam Ave. near Marcy Ave. — across the street from the Bedford-Stuyvesant school campus, which houses several schools and has metal detectors.
The weapon was found in a plastic bag, inside of which was a nylon case holding a 9-mm. ghost gun, police sources said.
“There was a community conversation around the possibility that this item may be outside. Our school safety agents stepped outside, walked the perimeter, and they found this item, taking it off our streets,” said Mark Rampersant, the executive director of the Department of Education’s Office of Safety and Youth Development.
Police described the gun as “unloaded,” but school officials found a seven-round magazine in the bag as well.
Neither of the boyfriends were immediately charged. Police searched Thursday for video footage to establish who left the book bag in the bushes, sources said.
“What we should take away from this is that this is a real problem. We really need to reach out to our elected officials to really put a stop to folks being able to access guns like this,” Rampersant said. “This is tough for our community. Our young people are in trouble.”
Ghost gun builders can use 3D printers to manufacture weapons’ plastic or polymer parts, printing out a gun’s lower receiver in about 12 hours from blueprints that downloaded online. Builders can also buy metal and plastic or polymer parts from online retailers.