Pellet Gun Shooting of Mayor’s Guard

A pair of 19-year-olds are being questioned by police Monday morning in connection with the pellet-gun shooting of a member of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s security detail outside the city leader’s official residence in Manhattan, officials said.

A police spokesman says the officer was exiting an unmarked police vehicle when she “felt ache within the decrease again”.

It happened around 7:15 p.m. Sunday when investigators said the officer was getting out of the passenger side of a black Ford Taurus.

Byron Smith/for New York Daily News The suspect seemed not to know he had fired at a police officer, sources say.

It was later determined she was struck by a pellet to the lower back.

There have been two previous reports of apparent BB/ pellets causing damage to windows in this same area.

The two individuals were taken into custody near 170 East End Avenue, a condo building.

The mayor wasn’t home at the time.

Veritsky, who has six prior arrests in NYC, first confessed that he shot at the officer, but as the questioning progressed he stopped cooperating and asked for an attorney.