Intended target in NYC shooting near kids was parolee set free after weapons charge

The man who police sources say was the intended target in the Bronx shooting that nearly killed two small children was a parolee set free after a weapons charge, The Post has learned.

The target, identified by sources as Hassan Wright, trampled a 13-year-old girl and her 5-year-old brother as he was trying to dodge bullets from alleged gunman Michael Lopez. He was shot three times as the kids managed to avoid injury. “He had no business being on the street,” a law enforcement source said of Wright.