Innocent female shopper wounded in broad daylight shooting in New York City

Ema Alice: A 30-year-old innocent female bystander was shot while shopping in a crowded outdoor plaza in downtown Brooklyn in broad daylight Monday, cops and sources said.

The woman took a stray bullet to the leg around 2:15 p.m. in front of the clothing store Primark in Albee Square near Fulton Street, police said.

“Everyone heard an explosion,” a Lidl food-market worker told The Post. “We thought kids were playing with firecrackers. Then we saw a lady on the ground,” the worker said.

“Everyone just scattered when the gunshot went off.

“She was on the floor,” the employee said of the victim, who had two shopping bags with her. “She looked confused.” A witness named Jessica said the victim ” slowly rolled up her pants leg on the left leg,” with medics and cops quickly descending on the scene.

“They brought her a chair, and she sat down,” Jessica said. “She rolled up more of her leg and you can see blood coming out.

“I think the victim was very stunned because she didn’t yell or scream or anything. For the longest [time], nobody really knew what happened to her.”

“She looked like everybody else there, on their way shopping or on their lunch break,” said the witness, adding it appeared the victim was either on her way to or had just left the nearby Target.

Another Lidl worker added, “It’s a dangerous city out here.

“She was just an innocent bystander ”

A photo of the aftermath showed the victim sitting on a stretcher with her hand over her forehead as first responders surrounded her. She was taken to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where she was listed in stable condition and “conscious and alert,” authorities said.

The suspected gunman, last seen wearing a black hat, black face mask and blue sweatpants, fled west on Fulton Street, sources said.

The motive for the violence remains under investigation. “Scary incident in Downtown Brooklyn this afternoon,” wrote city Councilman Lincoln Restler, who represents the area, on X.

“Young adults had a fight & there were gunshots. A bystander on Albee Sq West was shot, but fortunately she did not suffer life threatening injuries.

“We are in touch with precinct and will push for steady NYPD presence in area.”

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