A teen who was shot last week on Tryon Avenue near Williamsbridge Oval Park was arrested for armed robbery of an East Gun Hill Road nail salon that same day, according to a police source.

Police were called to 3400 Tryon Ave. on Saturday, Nov. 19 around 6 p.m., where a 16-year-old male claimed he had been shot on the street, and had bullet wounds to his arm and leg. He was transported to St. Barnabas Hospital for treatment.

A ranking NYPD source, however, says the boy’s story was bogus from the start.

“The victim lied from the very beginning,” said the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The boy told officers he was shot on the street by an unknown assailant, and even provided them with a fake name.

According to the source, the shooting victim and two others allegedly robbed Jin Nails, at 65 E. Gun Hill Rd., at gunpoint earlier that day before returning to the Tryon Avenue apartment.

“They go back to this address on Tryon Avenue and they’re hanging out,” the source said. “I don’t know what they’re doing — smoking weed, laughing up the robbery they just did — and one of them is playing with a gun,” when the victim was accidentally shot.

Police would eventually arrest the shooting victim, identified as Shakeem Brown, 16, and cohorts Marlon Low and Bianca Brown, all of Brooklyn, and charge them in the armed robbery. Bianca Brown was also charged in Shakeem’s shooting. It is not known if the two Browns are related.

Residents of the Tryon Avenue building claim that the apartment in question often hosts parties with as many as 100 guests crammed into the one bedroom apartment, and that police often visit the apartment several times in a single night.

“The police took out bags and bags of pot,” said one neighbor, recalling a raid at the apartment earlier this year. “They had a plantation in there.”

Repeated calls to the building’s landlord, E.N.M. Associates, were not returned by press time.

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