Public safety incident

Police are searching for a shooter after a child was shot in Brooklyn, and rushed to the hospital on Thursday.Someone in a group of young men opened fire on Bristol Street in Brownsville, hitting a 9-year-old boy in the leg.Police say he was definitely not the intended target.
"For this 9-year-old boy, that I know that plays with my kids, it's very sad. And now I'm afraid for my kid's lives," said a neighbor named Esmeralda.This neighbor says she had just come inside after seeing the large group of young men on Bristol Street at around 5:45 p.m.
"They were just only walking up the block but I kind of had a feeling something was going to happen," she said.Esmeralda said there were no people fighting, no chaos and no arguments.Then two or three gunshots rang out, and the young people scattered.The 9-year-old boy was taken to Brookdale Hospital with a wounded leg.
His Aunt Kim was rushing there and told Eyewitness News that the boy was walking up to her building to invite her son, his cousin, outside to play."A nice little boy. From the community. He don't do nothing. He just came to come outside to play," the victim's aunt said.
She says he will be OK, but her family is shaken up.As police look for the shooter, Kim had a message for that person.
Y'all have to stop, cause we all have to live here," she said.Neighbors told Eyewitness News that those who do live in the Marcus Garvey apartment community, say it usually is safe for kids to be just outside.
Police are going through video from the many cameras on the block to figure out exactly who brought a gun here, pulled the trigger and put so many lives in danger on a sunny and mild late afternoon.