A 16-year-old gang member was charged with attempted murder on Wednesday night over the shooting of an NYPD cop in the Bronx a night earlier, police said.
The suspect’s gun went off while he was tussling with the officer – identified by sources as Kaseem Pennant, 27 – outside a building at Lorillard Place near East 187th Street in Belmont around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.
The single round struck the teen in the groin before hitting Pennant in the right leg, police said.
The shooting unfolded after Pennant and five other officers from the 48th Precinct’s public safety team responded to a disorderly crowd at the
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