NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrsion said Thursday that police had apprehended a man, Patrick Mateo, after he engaged in a verbal dispute with a 52-year-old Asian woman and violently shoved her to the ground in Flushing, Queens on Wednesday.
Police launched an investigation after a 15-year-old boy was wounded in the arm Tuesday when gunfire erupted nearby as he was walking to a deli in the South Bronx, according to the NYPD.