A young shooter wounded in a gunfight that killed an innocent Harlem community leader stepping out of her building to check on her grandson has been charged with attempted murder, cops said Thursday.
Darious Smith, 23, is also facing gun possession charges for the Tuesday night shooting outside Tamara’s Beauty Bar, a salon on Lenox Ave. near W. 113th St. Cops say a second gunman Smith was aiming for blasted Smith in the foot and fatally shot 61-year-old bystander Excenia Mette in the head when he fired back at Smith. That second gunman has not been caught.
Surveillance footage recovered by police shows Smith rolling up to the corner on an electric scooter about 10:20 p.m. He begins arguing with a man then whips out a gun, fires two shots at his rival but hits no one…