BROOKLYN WAR ZONE
Stray bullet nails Coney kid’s room
A stray bullet whizzed through the window of an eighth-story Brooklyn apartment in the dead of night, landing in a teenage girl’s empty bed, according to her family and cops — the latest harrowing instance of gunplay in a year shot to hell.
Khady Sy, 46, was jolted awake in the wee hours of Dec. 17 by two bursts of gunfire totaling about eight shots outside her Coney Island apartment, but shrugged it off, having become used to the ominous sound.
“We’ve heard them before,” Sy, a Senegalese immigrant, told The Post on Tuesday from her West 31st Street home.
“I always hear gunshots, see blood on the ground.”
It was only on Monday, when Sy went to air out the bedroom shared by her 15and 17-year-old daughters — who have been away visiting their father, Sy’s exhusband — that she saw the apparent result of the fusillade.
“I see the bullet on the bed,” she recalled. “I was shocked! I feel numb. What if my daughter was sleeping here? She would die. It would hit her head. I don’t want my daughters in that room anymore!”
NYPD investigators told Sy’s husband, Steve Roseborough, 49, that the slug was “high-caliber,” he said.
“It went through the metal [window] frame, bent the frame!” said Roseborough. “It bounced off the ceiling, ricocheted onto the bed.”
Sy said that as she has watched the neighborhood decline, she has felt like a captive in her own home.
“We live like a prison here. After 8 [p.m.], I don’t let my kids leave,” she said. “I don’t even want to enter into the lobby at night. Liquor, marijuana smoke so thick, music so loud, driving motorcycles on the sidewalk. These people are a mess.”
Even if her kids aren’t physically harmed by the violence, Sy said she fears teenage hoodlums could lead her two daughters and three sons astray.
Although major crime is down in Coney Island’s 60th Precinct this year, the drop is driven largely by a 26.7 percent dip in nonviolent grand larcenies, according to NYPD statistics.
Sy and Roseborough said Tuesday that the criminaljustice system must act.
“I hope they catch all them,” said Sy. “Lock them all up.”