A 12-year-old girl is recovering after she was shot by a stray bullet on a Rockaways basketball court, and cops arrested the culprit responsible.
Dwight Henderson,18, allegedly fired a gun near the basketball game being played in the courts on Beach 59th Street near the boardwalk on Shore Front Parkway, at about 4:45 p.m. Saturday, according to police.
The young girl was struck in the leg and she was taken to North Shore Long Island Jewish Hospital where she was listed in stable condition, cops said.
Henderson fled into a nearby parking lot and hopped a fence where he was spotted by cops handing the gun to a teenage girl on Beach 60th Street and Larkin Avenue, cops said.
The officers, in full uniform, were canvassing the area for the suspect.
Cops arrested both Henderson and the 16-year-old girl, Geena Hill, cops said.
Henderson was charged with attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of a loaded firearm, reckless endangerment and resisting arrest, cops said.
Hill was charged with criminal possession of a defaced and loaded firearm, cops said.
Police do not believe the victim was the intended target.