Inwood, New York

From New York’s WCBStv.com of September 24, 2006

Cops: 9-Year-Old Shot In Home Robbery Attempt

A 9-year-old boy was in extremely critical condition Sunday after he was caught in a shootout during an attempted robbery on Long Island, police said.

Nassau County police said the boy and a 22-year-old man were both shot late Saturday when three would-be robbers entered a home in Inwood. The home's owner, a licensed gun owner, opened fire, and the robbers fled.

The relationship between the homeowner and the injured people was not immediately known. Police said one of the would-be robbers may have been shot.

The 9-year-old was being treated at Saint John's Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway. The 22-year-old's injury was not life threatening, police said.

The names of the shooting victims and the homeowner were not immediately released.

A subsequent news item reports that the boy was shot by the intruders, not the resident: Boy shot by intruders remains critical

From Long Island’s Newsday of October 4, 2006

Arrest made in home invasion shooting

Nassau County police announced today the arrest of a Brooklyn man shot in last month's botched Inwood home invasion that left a 9-year-old boy wounded.

Tyreek Williams, 21, will be arraigned today at Brooklyn's Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he has been since suffering multiple gunshot wounds in the Sept. 23 attempted robbery-turned-shoot out, Det. Lt. Dennis Farrell announced at a news conference in Mineola.

Farrell, commander of Nassau's Homicide Squad, said Williams was charged with first-degree robbery, first-degree assault and criminal use of a firearm. He said he will be arraigned at the hospital and later transferred to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow.

Farrell declined further comment, but said investigators are following new leads on the case.

Williams, with wounds to the face, leg and hand, showed up at the hospital 45 minutes after the gunbattle at Inwood home on West End Avenue home.

Police said Williams was with two other men who exchanged gunfire with a license pistol owner who lived at the Inwood home after a robbery attempt.

Williams was shot by that resident.

A bullet from one of the intruders' gun hit John Henry Romano Jr. who was visiting a cousin at the time of the shooting. Last week, John's mother said her son has regained consciousness and started speaking with his family.

John is listed in critical but stable condition at Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park. The bullet penetrated his brain and left him partially paralyzed on his left side.