Ex-con and 16-year-old boy arrested for shooting, wounding two teens near Brooklyn high school

An ex-con and a 16-year-old boy have been arrested for shooting and wounding two teens near a Brooklyn high school, police said Wednesday.

Ousmane Diallo, 21, is facing attempted murder charges for allegedly blasting away at two 18-year-old boys at a deli at 36th St. near Fourth Ave. in Sunset Park about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.

Cops nabbed Diallo and the 16-year-old boy as they tried to get away on a city bus. The gun used in the shooting was found under one of the suspect’s seats, a police source said.

Diallo, a Crips gang member, lives in Crown Heights, cops said. He is on probation for an August Brooklyn shooting.

The boy, whose name was not named by cops because of his age, was charged with gun possession.

The victims were hanging out inside 952 Deli and Express, across the street from Sunset Park’s P.S. 371 Lillian L. Rashkis High School, where they regularly come for snacks, according to the shop’s manager.

While it was first believed that the victims were enrolled in the Lillian L. Rashkis High School, police said Wednesday that no one involved in the shooting was linked to the school.

“The gunman just came in and started shooting. He didn’t say anything,” deli manager Damag Sufyan, 32, told the Daily News Tuesday. “It was like fireworks”

“One of the kids dove over the counter,” he added. “The other was just walking around bleeding. They were screaming, ‘I got shot! I got shot! Call 911!”

The victims were each shot in the shoulder and treated at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn.

Workers at the deli said the victims had gotten into an argument with some other teens near the deli on Monday.

The suspects’ arraignments were pending in Brooklyn Criminal Court Wednesday.

The incident was the latest in a troubling surge of youth violence that led Schools Chancellor David Banks to call the situation “a state of emergency” in January.

He has maintained that the schools themselves are safe, attributing the spike in crime to conflicts after school.

Last month, the city assigned additional cops to cover schools, along with nearby bus stops and train stations, at dismissal time. Precinct commanders were told to meet weekly with principals to discuss “issues of note” and the policy was reiterated on a subsequent call with school leaders.

Last year, 157 victims under the age of 18 were either killed or wounded by gunfire, a 15% increase compared to 2021, when students had not all returned to school buildings after pandemic-era closures, NYPD data shows.