The gun used in a shooting that grazed a woman’s forehead while she slept in her Bronx apartment was illegal, with its serial number scratched off and unregistered in the NYPD’s database, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The 55-year-old victim was asleep in her bed in her apartment on Purdy St. near Metropolitan Ave. in Parkchester about 11:45 p.m. Sunday when a bullet was fired through her ceiling, police said.
The woman turned on a light, and realized she was bleeding from her forehead. She was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where she was treated and later released.
Cops visited the apartment upstairs, where in the room directly above the victim’s bedroom was a similar hole in the floor along with Kiron Valerio, Dezmond Frazier and Tyquan Williams, all 19. Also in the room were two 17-year-olds, whose identities were withheld due to their age.
Inside a plastic tote container in one of the bedrooms, cops found a fanny pack stuffed with two loaded guns — a black 9mm Glock 19 and a black 9mm Kel-Tec pistol. The Kel-Tec’s serial number had been scratched off, investigators said. It was loaded with a magazine holding 12 rounds of 9mm ammo, while the Glock had 19 rounds in its magazine, according to prosecutors.
The suspects had the weapons in their custody, according to police.
At their arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court on Tuesday, Williams, Valerio and Frazier were all charged with weapons possession and reckless endangerment. Williams and Valerio were released without bail, while Frazier was ordered to be released under supervision.