A 14-year-old girl leaving a friend’s Sweet 16 party was shot dead while boarding a city bus in Queens last night when a gunman opened fire from the sidewalk, cops said.
The unidentified victim was struck at least once in the head at about 9 p.m. and pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital, according to police.
Cops were searching for the shooter, who ran away after spraying bullets at the Q6 bus, which was stopped while headed north on Sutphin Boulevard near 125th Avenue in Jamaica.
A detective at the scene said about 10 shots were fired.
A source said the gunman targeted a small group of girls who were boarding the bus after leaving a Sweet 16 party at the nearby Onyx Lounge.
It was unknown what the motive was or whether the dead girl was the intended victim.
Outside the club, a woman said cops were grilling patrons there about what they knew.
“The cops were just questioning me to see if it was a private event, who was here, and when they left,” a woman said outside the bar.
“There was no altercation here. It’s not like anything spilled out from here.”
Neighborhood resident Keisha Johnson, 21, said: “It sounded like Iraq out here.”