New York Post

SUBWAY SHOOT

‘Wrong gal’ hit outside station

- By JOE MARINO, REUVEN FENTON and NATALIE MUSUMECI Additional reporting by Shawn Cohen nmusumeci@nypost.com

A young woman walked out of a Queens subway station Friday morning and was shot in the gut by a total stranger, authoritie­s said.

The victim, identified by police sources as Jaivon Mitchner, 28, was hit by a bullet apparently meant for another woman at about 6:55 a.m. at 41st Avenue and 10th Street in Long Island City, cops said.

Moments earlier, Mitchner had exited the 21st Street-Queensbrid­ge F-train station.

She was rushed to New-York-Pres-by-terian Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition.

Police say Mitchner was not the intended target.

Following the shooting near NYCHA’s Queensbrid­ge Houses — the nation’s largest public housing developmen­t — the gunman ran off.

The 23-year-old alleged shooter is known to police by the name Snooze Brown, according to sources. He allegedly was targeting a 19- year-old woman with whom he was having a dispute, sources said.

Neighborho­od residents were shocked at the circumstan­ces of the shooting.

“That’s so upsetting. The idea that someone gets off the subway — maybe after working a night shift so she could feed her family — and some idiot with a gun fires wildly and puts another innocent victim in the hospital,” said Takisha Reece, 25.

“The tragedy here is that she’s one of the lucky ones. Way too many other people haven’t been so lucky,” Reece added.

Janice Rivera, 58, said: “Why do we have to see yet another victim of random gun violence in our neighborho­od?”

“This poor girl, shot in the stomach just coming out of the subway,” Rivera said. “It’s a good thing her injuries aren’t fatal, but I can only imagine what her family is going through. I have a daughter her age, and I’d be completely broken if something like that happened to her.”

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