Exclusive | NYC girl, 15, has pelvis split by stray bullet from scooter-riding thugs, grandma says: Stop these kids

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.”“It went in her back and now it’s in the front, like her stomach area,” she added.

“She’s just lying there sad right now.She’s sleeping.”She is not believed to have been the intended target, according to police sources.Paytton is “a lovely young girl” who “loves to play sports,” King said.

She was with her siblings and pals near her apartment complex when the suspects whizzed by, letting rounds fly, her grandma said.Her grandmother was getting out of a cab when they zoomed right past her and she heard the shots.“It was a lot.It wouldn’t stop,” King recalled.

“It was bad boys riding on scooters.I see them when they ride past me.”“They were just randomly shooting inside the complex.

[Paytton] was on her cell phone.”Pamela said multiple people – including her own daughter – called the cops earlier in the day to report the scooter-riding teens, but no one showed up until Paytton took a bullet. “They just do it all the time,” she said.“They come through the block and [shoot] and keep going.

That’s like some fun thing to do.”“[Neighbors] said these boys were riding...