NOTE: Charges against Kendall Hurley were dropped in this case after an investigation found insufficient evidence to prosecute (see story).

A man suspected of shooting a 15-year-old girl last month as she spoke with another man who it is believed was the intended target was arrested Saturday on a warrant for violating probation.

The girl, whose name is being withheld by The New York Sun because she is a minor, was discharged Friday from Harlem Hospital Center after undergoing surgery on her arm and more than a week of rehabilitation, officials said.

On December 29 at 5 p.m., Ardae McGraw, 20, was selling tax-free cigarettes on the bustling corner of 125th Street and Lenox Avenue, law enforcement officials said. The teenage girl was talking to Mr. McGraw as he stood inside one of the public telephone booths on the corner, according to a witness who sells counterfeit DVDs and CDs at the location.

Kendall Hurley, 20, allegedly approached and fired a shot at Mr. McGraw that struck the girl’s arm, shattering the bone in her forearm, law enforcement sources said. The girl, who lives on Morningside Avenue, “felt a warm sensation in her right forearm and then her arm went limp and she fainted,” the criminal complaint says.

Police arrested Hurley nearby, and the district attorney’s office charged him with assault and criminal possession of a weapon. He was released January 4, the Department of Correction said.

Through a neighbor, the girl’s mother declined to be interviewed and refused to answer her door.

According to law enforcement officials, Mr. McGraw sold cigarettes on consignment. When he was arrested about a month ago, police seized $250 in proceeds, officials said.

Mr. McGraw, who receives mail at his father’s West 119th Street apartment, could not be reached for comment.

“I haven’t seen my son in six months,” said Mr. McGraw’s father, William Bowles, 69, who is raising the defendant’s 4-year-old son, Devonte. Mr. Bowles noted that in his apartment he has a January 4 order of protection for his son against Hurley.

A week before the shooting, Hurley was busted for an attempted robbery. According to the criminal complaint, he hailed a taxicab at West 86th Street, directed the cabbie to drop him at West 125th Street, and shortly afterward demanded $20. The cabbie told the passenger to exit the vehicle on West 100th Street, just west of the 24th Precinct, police officials said. Hurley then allegedly said he had a gun, and the driver continued eastbound about 25 feet and stopped in front of the stationhouse, where police arrested Hurley.

On Saturday, the Police Department’s Manhattan Task Force apprehended Hurley on a warrant stemming from his robbery conviction as a youth, in front of his West 125th Street home. He is expected in court today for a probation violation hearing, a spokesman for the city’s Department of Probation, Jack Ryan, said.