A Brooklyn boy today chillingly described how a gunman opened fire in a Bed-Stuy courtyard in broad daylight and shot his little 3-year-old brother in the leg.
“One guy got up from the chair and he took out his gun and start to shoot,” said Adam Quinones,7, about the shocking crime that left his brother Isaiah Rivera bleeding in front of their horrified mom at the Roosevelt Houses on Pulaski Street,
The kids had been playing with other children in a sprinkler Sunday when the shootout began.
“He was right there,” Adam said of the gunman, indicating the courtyard. “He was black, he had black hair and he had a brown t-shirt … and blue jeans.”
“I saw him pull out the gun before he started shooting.”
“He didn’t say anything,” the brother said.
“Then he pulled out a gun and start to shoot.”
“Some people just ran through the park. They were all afraid,” Adam recalled.
“When they start to shoot everyone just got off the benches and started to run.”
“After he was finished shooting he put the gun away and ran like he didn’t shoot,” Adam said of the gunman. “He jumped in the car with the two boys and they started to drive.”
“I didn’t get a glimpse of the driver.”
But then he spotted Isaiah, bleeding from a bullet to his leg.
“I was the first one who saw my brother and saw blood,” Adam said. “I stand right there. I told my mom, Isaiah still standing right there . . . she picked him up and gave him to our neighbor.”
At first, Adam said, “I wasn’t afraid.”
But, he added, when “I saw the blood was a lot that’s when i got scared.”
“I told [his mom] Isaiah’s right there, get him get him. She ran and picked him up. She told my neighbor, ‘Check him! check him!’ — hysterically.”
Isaiah’s leg had been hit by one of nearly a dozen bullets that went flying in the shootout.
He was taken to Kings County Hospital — and returned home Monday evening after being visited by Mayor Bloomberg, and after cops busted two suspects as they continued searching for a third.
“He’s doing good,” said Isaiah’s mom Monajas, who is due to give birth next week.
Monajas said that although Isaiah hasn’t talked about the shooting — and doesn’t understand what happened to himself — he has been playing at home since his return there.
Adam said that when his brother was in the hospital for two days, “I had to stay with my neighbor.”
“I couldn’t sleep at all, because I was worried,” he said, noting that he was plagued by bad dreams.
“My nightmare was there was a baby on fire and the fire magically moved and melted the baby. And then something came to life and started to talk.”
Adam said he was happy two of the people believed to be responsible for hurting his baby brother were nabbed, but noted, “ One is still loose.”
“So, my family, we’re going to have to move,” Adam said, echoing his parents’ intention to get out of the neighborhood.
“But I’m also wondering how we’re going to move all that stuff. and i’m also worried about my toys,” Adam said. “If i leave my toys there how are we going to get the money to buy more again?”
Of his wounded brother Isaiah, Adam said, “He’s a little bad — he beats me up.”
“I told my parents when he beats me up, and sometimes he pulls down my underwear.”
But Adam also said “It’s nice” having his brother back home.
“Everyone is bringing him toys,” Adam said. “He even lets me play with them, and some of the people that came didn’t know I was there so they said they’d come back and bring me toy too.”
“The best toy is the police toy — a police motorcycle with a guy and a police truck and a police car that lights up. All three of them light up. Some came from the hospital. Some came from the police and some came from the detectives.”
The suspected gunman in the shooting, Antonio McCloud, and accused getaway driver Stanley Williams were both due to be arraigned today in Brooklyn Criminal Court on charges of attempted murder, attempted assault, criminal possession of a weapon, assault, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child.
Police are still searching for the second suspected gunman, 30-year-old Jashid Chambers.
Additional reporting by Helen Freund
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