THE BRONX — A man with a history of gun charges has been arrested in the shooting of a 13-year-old boy who was headed to school in the Bronx on Tuesday morning, according to the NYPD.

Police said the teen was walking on East 223rd Street near Bronxwood Avenue in Wakefield at around 7:30 a.m. when he was shot in the neck.

He was taken to a local hospital and is expected to recover, police said.

While searching the scene for ballistics, police said they observed an individual who put something down on the ground and picked it up.

Police said an officer then gave a verbal command to that individual to drop the item. 

“As the officers approached that individual, he tried to conceal the item in his waist band,” Commanding Officer Kenneth Lehr said during a news conference. “The officers then gave further instructions to the individual to drop the object to the ground. The officer moved in and took that individual into custody.”

The individual, 36-year-old Hubert Wiggs, was on parole for firearm and illegal drug convictions in 2010, police said. While on parole for the 2010 gun charge, he was arrested again in 2019 for carrying a firearm, indicted and later posted bail, according to police.

He is charged with attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of weapon, menacing and endangerment.