The career criminal in a Yankees jersey who shot a teen girl with a stray bullet near Manhattan’s Mexican Day Parade admitted to cops , “That’s me … holding the gun” in footage, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Joel Nieves, 35, sang like a canary when police showed him surveillance video of the Sunday evening shooting at the corner of 27th Street and Park Avenue — where he opened fire on rival gang members and struck an innocent 17-year-old girl in the shoulder, authorities said at his arraignment.

“That’s me wearing the Yankees jersey and camouflage pants in the photograph. I am holding a gun. I fired it twice,” Nieves confessed to cops, according to the criminal complaint. 4

Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Stephanie Ritter told the judge, “He admitted to possessing a gun and fir

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