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Police are charging a 25-year-old Staten Island man with a hate crime after he injured a father and son leaving a kosher market in the borough with a BB gun, authorities said Tuesday.
Jason Kish of the Port Richmond neighborhood was arrested Tuesday morning, less than two days after he fired at a 35-year-old man and 7-year-old boy in front of the Island Kosher supermarket in the Meiers Corners section of the borough, police said.
Authorities charged him with assault as a hate crime, child endangerment, reckless endangerment and assault, according to the NYPD.
Richmond County district attorney’s office spokesperson Andrew Crawford said both victims were wearing traditional religious Jewish clothing while standing in front of the store. Kish allegedly shot at the father and son from an unmarked, black Ford Mustang on the road, authorities said.
Neither victim sustained major injuries, Crawford said.