The teenage gangbanger accused in Monday’s stray-bullet shooting of a 16-year-old Queens girl was charged with attempted murder Friday and ordered held without bail.
Caolynn Griffin-Bratton, 16, who is also charged with gun possession and felony assault, pleaded not guilty — but a judge shot down his bid to go home with his mother.
“There is gang affiliation,” prosecutor Tina Grillo told the judge in asking Griffin-Bratton be remanded.
The prosecutor noted to the judge the severity of the injuries caused when the teen allegedly opened fire Monday near New Dawn Charter High School II in Jamaica, shortly after classes let out.
Ashley Armoogan, 16, “has a bullet lodged in her shoulder near a major artery,” Grillo said.
The teen’s court-appointed lawyer, Garrett Austin, had asked Queens Supreme Court Justice Joseph Zayas to release the teen to the custody of his mother, who appeared in court on his behalf.
Austin argued that Griffin-Bratton attends the High School for Law Enforcement and Public Safety, and was making an effort to attend a court-ordered program, where “he had been showing signs of improvement.”
Still, the teen was reported missing by his mother recently, the lawyer conceded, and a warrant had been issued.
Griffin-Bratton has been a one-boy crime wave in Queens, sources allege.
He remains under investigation for his alleged involvement in two other recent gang-related shootings in that neighborhood, law enforcement sources have told The Post.
An hour before Armoogan’s shooting, Griffin-Bratton and two other teen boys were allegedly involved in a shooting on a bus, NYPD Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea told reporters Thursday afternoon.
“We believe we know who they were shooting at on the bus. We believe we know who they were shooting at at the school,” Shea said.
On Saturday night, another stray bullet from what is believed to have been the same gang rivalry struck and killed innocent bystander Aamir “Buddy” Griffin, 14, as he played on a basketball court near his home, officials have said.
Mac Baller Brims is one of the gangs involved in the rivalry, Shea said Thursday.
Griffin-Bratton has an open charg for a violent mugging that left a 14-year-old boy with multiple arm fractures, sources have told The Post.
His record also includes arrests for armed robberies of a bicycle, an Apple iPad and an iPhone and a bodega theft in the Rockaways, the sources said.
Additional reporting by Georgett Roberts and Laura Italiano
