Police are looking for a green New York City taxi in a drive-by shooting that injured a 21-year-old man in Brooklyn early on Wednesday.
The man was taken to the hospital with two gunshot wounds to his leg after the shooting on Chester Street in Brownsville at about 2 a.m., according to the NYPD. He is expected to survive his injuries.
Authorities said that the shooter fired a weapon from the taxi.
The victim's mother, Beverly Wright, said that her son was hanging out outside a building when he was targeted by the gunman. She said she isn't sure why someone would have shot her son, who was undergoing surgery at the hospital.
"I pray to God this operation, he goes through it," she said. "It hurts because that's my baby."
She called on the shooter to surrender to police.
"Whoever shot my son, please come forward," Wright said. "My son is not a problem child, he does not carry guns, he doesn't need any of that."
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The cab had left the scene by the time authorities arrived.
Anyone with information on the shooting should call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
