A hardworking immigrant struck by a stray bullet while riding a Brooklyn MTA bus home from his fast-food shift is in too much pain to return to his job, he told the Daily News.
Del Geraldo Charles, 25, was on his way home from a Wendy’s near Kennedy Airport where he works as a cook when his B15 bus got caught in crossfire between two moving vehicles in Brownsville.
Charles, who was sitting near the front of the bus, was struck when a bullet pierced the windshield near Hegeman Ave. and Thomas Boyland St. about 1:25 a.m. on Dec. 15. He has a bullet still lodged in his shoulder and a graze wound near his neck.
“You can feel it. It’s here. It’s lodged,” Charles said, pressing on the bullet that has created a lump on the back of his shoulder.
”When I heard the sound, the bullet sound, everybody got down on the floor,” Charles, who is originally from Haiti, said in Creole.
“I thought people on the street were throwing rocks at the bus. That’s what I thought. After I got seated, after 30 seconds, I saw a lot of blood on my shirt.”