A 3-year-old Brooklyn boy fought for his life Saturday after a neighbor shot him in the head just months after he suffered horrific injuries when a pit bull belonging to his mother’s boyfriend bit him, cops and outraged neighbors said.
The bullet pierced little Tharell Edward’s skull inside his mom’s Flatbush apartment about 3:30 a.m., cops said. Tharell was inside the second-floor apartment at E. 21st St. with his mother’s female roommate and 22-year-old neighbor Akeem Bernard when the shot rang out.
Bernard was charged late Saturday with felony assault, criminal possession of a weapon, endangering the welfare of a child and tampering with evidence.
“My mother had just left and the girl got up to use the bathroom,” Tharell’s sister Thanielle Edward, 20, said. “She heard a gunshot and the guy was trying to act like he didn’t know what happened.”
Blood was spattered across the crib and much of the apartment as the two adults apparently panicked and ran around the flat with the tot after he was struck, sources said.
Disgusted neighbors said Tharell’s short life has been a disturbingly rough one.
“She’s very irresponsible, very neglectful,” said neighbor Tony Reid of the boy’s mother. “She had a dog that bit the baby and when the baby came back from the hospital the child fell down the staircase that week. Twice that week.”
Born two months premature, the boy was often left home while his mother stayed with a boyfriend, according to the neighbors.
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