Man charged in Hempstead shooting
A Hempstead man was arrested early Wednesday in a shooting that wounded another man on Terrace Avenue Sunday afternoon.
Jason M. Jones, 28, of 131 Terrace Ave., Apt. 1B, was arrested and charged with second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and second-degree assault, Nassau County police said. He was to be arraigned Wednesday in First District Court, Hempstead.
Police said a man, 25, walking in front of 131 Terrace Ave. was shot once in the hand and buttocks Sunday at 1:30 p.m.
The man was taken to a hospital and treated for what police described as nonlife-threatening injuries.
It was not immediately clear what led police to Jones.
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