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The scene in Brooklyn where a young boy was injured after getting caught in the middle of a fight.Paul MartinkaA 3-year-old boy in a stroller was injured in Brooklyn on Tuesday, when a man fighting with another threw a glass bottle, hitting the child above the eye.
The boy, Alex Li, was with his mom and sister when he was cut above his right eye around 9 a.m. on the corner of 5th Avenue and 60th Street in Sunset Park, cops and witnesses said.
Alex Li, 3, was struck by a glass bottle.The men were arguing in a nearby bodega, the Gold Star Supermarket, when the fight spilled out onto the street, and one of the men threw a bottle, police said.
“My sister was just taking her daughter to school. This is terrible,” said the child’s aunt, Hui Ying Chen.
The boy’s horrified grandmother, Oi Lan Wong, said, “We’re scared.”
It’s unclear if the man was intending to hit the baby with the bottle.
The child was rushed to Lutheran Hospital with a non-life-threatening injury.
Police are hunting for the man who threw the bottle and are questioning the other man with whom he was squabbling.
