The New York Times-20080124-2 Crips Members Are Arrested After Queens Teenager Is Shot

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2 Crips Members Are Arrested After Queens Teenager Is Shot

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A teenager was wounded in the neck outside his high school in Queens on Wednesday, and the police said the shooting was gang related.

The victim, 18, whose identity was not released, was in stable condition at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman, said the shooting involved three members of the Bloods, including the wounded student, and two members of the Crips.

The two Crips members, one of whom is the suspected gunman, are in police custody. About 10:30 Wednesday morning, two police officers in a patrol car noticed two groups of young men on the corner of 142nd Street and Linden Boulevard, outside the Queens School for Career Development.

As a passing bus obscured the officers' view, they heard gunshots, the police said. When the bus passed, a gunman approached and fired at a sergeant who was getting out of the patrol car. The sergeant, uninjured, fired back, the police said, but did not hit the gunman, who fled south on 142nd Street. The sergeant pursued him on foot for a few minutes, then returned to his partner, who had taken the other Crip into custody. The wounded student was taken to the hospital.

As more officers arrived, the police and school security officials locked down the school. The police said they found the weapon, a .25 caliber semiautomatic handgun, in a nearby driveway, and the gunman's jacket behind a neighboring house.

The school reopened early in the afternoon so students could take state Regents exams.