New York Post

Officer’s kid shot near his Qns. HS

- Larry Celona, Tina Moore and Steven Vago

The teenage son of an NYPD cop was shot across the street from his high school in Queens on Wednesday, police sources said.

The 17-year-old, who was hit in the left arm, ran bleeding into Maspeth HS in Elmhurst after the 1:40 p.m. incident and was taken to Elmhurst Hospital as the youth’s girlfriend looked on in tears, according to witnesses and law-enforcemen­t sources.

He was expected to survive, police said.

The suspects sped away down 74th Street on scooters and were arrested shortly after, according to cops.

The shooter was also a student at Maspeth, which was placed on lockdown after the incident.

One student, Isaiah Perez, told The Post the victim was on the way to the gym.

“I was inside school on the second floor, and they ended up locking the building down completely . . . I saw [the victim’s] girlfriend crying,” Perez said. “I went up to her and asked what was going on. I saw him on the stretcher with the patch on his arm, so he was shot in the arm.”

Perez said he was “surprised” because the victim was “not that kind of person to go out and cause trouble like that. I wouldn’t see anything like that happening.”

But there had been “trouble” at the beginning of the school year between the suspect and victim, he said.

The shooting left parents at the school horrified.

“It’s scary because this is a good neighborho­od,” said mother Jennifer after picking up her daughter.

The shooting was only the latest violence near city schools this year. In April, Angellyh Yambo, 16, was shot dead and two other teens were hit while walking near the University Prep Charter HS in The Bronx.

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