A 15-year-old migrant who allegedly shot a tourist while firing at a security guard and later aimed his gun at the NYPD in Times Square tried to flee the city with his mom – and was held without bail at his Saturday arraignment because he would likely flee again, prosecutors said.
Jesus Alejandro Rivas-Figueroa shot at the guard and struck the Brazilian tourist in the leg on Thursday night before shooting at cops who chased him as he fled to a subway station, cops said.
“He then returned to his home, and he and his mother immediately began to flee,” prosecutors said Saturday. “They packed up all their belongings and by 6 a.m. the next morning had vacated their home and fled out of the city.”
The two were caught less than 24 hours later at a house in Yonkers, “where he was hiding behind a wardrobe in a further attempt to evade police,” authorities contended.
