A 16-year-old boy was arrested on Oct. 22 and booked at the 100th Precinct in Rockaway Beach more than two months after he allegedly fired a handgun towards a crowd near an Arverne playground in broad daylight.

The teenager was arraigned in Queens Criminal Court the next day on a complaint charging him with reckless endangerment in the first degree and criminal possession of a weapon, an armed felony offense.

The shooting took place near the Almeda Playground at Beach 65th Street and Beach Channel Drive on the afternoon of Tuesday, Aug. 12. At approximately 1:40 p.m., the gunman opened fire at the crowd and then fled in an unknown direction. No one was injured during the shooting.

Police from the 100th Precinct responded to a radio run for a ShotSpotter notification for multiple

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