A brave Bronx High School of Science student who was shot by a bullet that pierced her family’s front door last year is terrified that the attacker is still on the loose — but refuses to let the nightmare ruin her life.
“I think someone should have been arrested by now,” Tamima Samira, now 16, told The Post last week. “We don’t know who did it. We don’t know what their intentions were. And like, that’s scary. And that’s honestly terrifying.
“Emotionally, I feel fantastic. Never been better,” the teen said.
“I was raised in New York City. I don’t think I could ever imagine myself living anywhere else.
“But in terms of like, how am I feeling about the incident in general? I feel like, you know, that shouldn’t have happened.”
The Queens teen was doing her homework in the dining room of her family’s house on 113th Road near 205th Street in St. Albans around 11 p.m. June 7 when a bullet whizzed through the front door.
Tamima Samira remains “resilient” a year after she was wounded by a stray bullet while doing homework inside her Queens home.Stephen Yang
The then-15-year-old was struck in the right shin.
“We thought it was fireworks for like the first 10 seconds, and my dad went to open the door to see what was going on outside. And then when I couldn’t get up from my chair and felt the pain in my leg — then we realized someone had shot at our front door,” she recalled.
Footage from a neighbor’s home surveillance system shows three suspects pull out guns and open fire before fleeing toward Francis Lewis Boulevard, sources told The Post.
While the motive for the shooting and the intended target remain a mystery, Samira’s family does not believe the bullets were meant for them.
Around 20 bullets struck the front of the house.
Samira’s mom tied a tourniquet around the teen’s leg after she was shot in the right shin.BRIGITTE STELZER
“It felt like I was being electrocuted,” Samira said last year of the moment she was hit.
But Samira still had the presence of mind to tell her father not to open the door.
“I’m absolutely certain that if my dad had opened the door at that moment, he would have been shot, too,” she said.
Her mother rushed to tie a tourniquet around the teen’s wound, and her father called 911.Samira underwent surgery to remove the bullet from her leg.
The Bronx Science junior has only praise for NYPD investigators, saying they are “genuine” when she calls them for updates on her case.
“The investigation is ongoing,” the NYPD said.
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