Scooter-riding “bad boys” who are terrorizing a Bronx apartment complex are to blame for shooting a 15-year-old girl and leaving her with gruesome injuries on Monday, according to her grandma, who pleaded for cops to “stop these kids.”
Paytton King, a freshman at Grace H. Dodge Career and Technical School – who is part of a local violence prevention program – was struck by a stray about 6:45 p.m. at 183rd Street and Crotona Avenue in Belmont, according to cops and her grandma Pamela King, 57.
The bullet “split her pelvis” and she was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center, where she is listed in stable condition and undergoing surgery.
Payton was still hospitalized Tuesday afternoon, according to her grandma.
“She’s not talking right now. She’s in tubes,” King said. “She has to get another surgery. [The bullet] is traveling in her body.”