A 17-year-old boy was reportedly shot in the back by NYPD officers patrolling the Gouverneur Morris Houses in the Bronx last night around 9:30. Police say they spotted Peter Colon carrying a .22-caliber gun in a stairwell of the housing project, and when a female officer reached for the gun, Colon fought back. The Daily News, which reports Colon's age as 19, says the teen hit the female cop in the face and pointed the gun at her. At that point, her partner then shot at Colon twice, hitting him once in the back.
But according to the AP, Colon had pointed his gun at the officer who ultimately shot him, and took a bullet in the torso. And Colon's brother-in-law Javier Brown, 28, tells the News he saw the shooting through a window of a door to the stairwell, and insists Colon was shot for no reason: "They shot this boy. He had no gun. They tripped him. They kicked him." Whatever happened, the end result is that Colon—who has prior arrests for burglary, resisting arrest and marijuana possession—survived and is listed in stable condition at Lincoln Hospital.
