Exclusive | Innocent NYC bystander, 32, describes moment she was hit by bullet in shooting: I looked down and theres a hole

An innocent bystander who was struck by a bullet on a Brooklyn street during an apparent drive-by shooting Tuesday evening described the terrifying moment she realized she had been hit.Alia Abdul-Raheem, 32, was walking down Malcolm X Boulevard to her Bedford-Stuyvesant home after work around 7 p.m.when she heard gunshots ring out.“I looked up and I saw a car driving by pretty fast, and the windows were down, and it sounds like the gunshots are coming from the car,” Abdul-Raheem, who works at a record label, told The Post Wednesday.“Then the next second later, I just felt this, like this hit on my chest, and I looked down, and there’s a hole in my coat, through my shirt.”In a state of shock, Abdul-Raheem rushed home as fast as she could.

“At the time, I couldn’t feel any blood.I didn’t really know what had just happened.

I was just in pain and kind of shocked, and I continued to walk home.”It wasn’t until she got there, that she realized how serious her situation was.“And I got home, and my sister opened up my coat and she could see the big gash and wounds on my chest,” she said.

Abdul-Raheem went to New York Presbyterian’s emergency room, where nurses immediately had her see a doctor, who examined the wound and did an X-ray.Fortunately, the bullet didn’t enter her chest.

Police reported the injury as a graze wound.Abdul-Raheem said the doctor told her that “all things considered,” she was lucky — “it could have been really a lot worse.”A 15-year-old boy was also shot by the same suspect or group of suspects, police said.The teen was struck in the left ankle on Chauncey Street near Malcolm X Boulevard, cops said.

Investigators believe he was the intended target, according to sources.He was rushed to the hospital in stable condition.

Less than 24 hours after the shooting, Abdul-Raheem said she is physically sore and mentally in shock.She said she’s lived in the neighborhood for eight years and never felt unsafe, but she e...