NEW YORK (AP) — Police officers shot and wounded an armed teenager during a foot chase in Queens Friday night, authorities said.
Mikal Paden, 18, of Brooklyn was shot in the hand, the buttocks and the leg. The wounds were not expected to be life-threatening.
"When they brought him out in cuffs, he was looking like he was proud, like he was on TV or something," one witness to the chase, 14-year-old Franklin Valdez, told the Daily News.
Police said Paden was part of a group of young men who were confronted by officers at about 5:30 p.m. in the borough's Ozone Park section. Paden was being chased by a sergeant and an officer when he pulled a .40 caliber Smith & Wesson from his waistband, police said.
Both officers opened fire. Witnesses said Paden stumbled into an alley collapsed near someone's backyard pool before police handcuffed him.
The teen was charged with criminal use of a firearm.
