Police say an NYPD officer encountered the teen victim around 6:45 p.m., on the intersection of East 183rd Street and Crotona Avenue, after as many as five shots rang through the neighborhood, with one of them hitting the 15-year-old girl in the lower back.
The officer placed the victim in his vehicle and drove her to NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi where she's undergoing surgery. She's expected to survive.
The victim's family told Eyewitness News that she had been standing with a group of friends when someone pulled a gun and opened fire.
It isn't clear who the intended target was, but the victim is cooperating with investigators in a neighborhood that's fed up with gun violence.
There are no arrests, and the investigation is ongoing.
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