2 students, guard hit by gunfire outside school

Two students and a school security guard were hit by gunfire outside a Brooklyn charter school Wednesday, police said.

The injured — a 15-year-old girl, a 17-year-old boy and a 37-year-old security guard — were outside the Williamsburg Charter High School on Varet St. in Williamsburg when a brawl broke out just after 2 p.m. as classes ended for the day, cops said.

About 15 students were involved in the fight, during which a plank of wood was brandished as a weapon, police sources said.

A mother waiting for her son to come out of the school witnessed the terrifying scene.

“All of a sudden a group of kids came out of the school walking fast,” said Elizabeth Cabrera. “The security guard shooed them away.”

Cabrera watched as the fight escalated, with one child carrying what she described as a “log or pipe” as a weapon.

“The security guard grabbed him and pushed him aside,” Cabrera said of the weapon-wielding student. “Everybody rushed to the intersection. Then there were three or four shots.”

The girl was shot in the right thigh and the boy was shot in the left leg, cops said. The guard was grazed in his neck.

The boy told faculty he was walking to the train when he was shot, school sources said.

“I didn’t think it would come to this. I thought it would be a fist fight,” said Cabrera. “While we were waiting, the EMTs carried out one of the [shot] kids.”

All were taken to area hospitals with minor injuries.

The gunman ran off. No arrests were immediately reported.

“I had to drag my kid out of the school in tears,” said Cabrera.

Later Wednesday afternoon, a bloodied piece of wood, bullet casings and a girl’s jacket hood littered the intersection outside the school.

In December, a girl was shot and wounded outside the school.

“The school has to do something,” Cabrera said.

“The city has to do something. This has to stop.”

In a statement, Williamsburg Charter High School’s accountability and development manager, Katie Manion, said it is “deeply troubled by today’s events.”

“WCHS leadership will be meeting with government officials this week to discuss the recent uptick of violence in our community and how we can work together to keep our students and staff members safe,” Manion said,

At a faculty meeting Wednesday afternoon, staffers were told the school plans to provide students with grief counseling and is determining if classes will be remote for the rest of the week in light of the shooting, school sources said.

There are no metal detectors at the school, but a formal request has been made to the board for information on possible installation, the sources added. The school board is not “opposed or for it,” the principal told faculty.

Two students suffered non-lifethreatening injuries in a shooting Monday near another Williamsburg high school.

Those students, a 16-year-old boy and 17-year-old girl, were shot on Maujer St. near Humboldt St., about a block from the Grand Street Campus High School. A witness reported hearing five shots, and a gunman in a ski mask fled the scene.