The gang that couldn’t shoot straight is at it again. At least they didn’t shoot ten innocent people by mistake. I guess that could be called improvement. Maybe the NYPD should value marksmanship over diversity in their hiring process. The 11 year old kid in St.Louis only required one shot and nailed the perp in the head. Maybe the NYPD should hire him as an instructor.
Cops fire 84 shots at robbery suspect, hit him once: police
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
A gun-toting Brooklyn bandit dodged more than 80 police bullets early Friday in a wild street shootout that began with a botched armed robbery and ended with his arrest, officials said.
Oft-apprehended Jerrol Harris, 27, was busted around 1:10 a.m. when a single bullet — out of 84 fired at him — pierced his calf to end a blocks-long police pursuit through Bushwick, cops said.
The running gun battle came to a head when Harris opened fire with a stolen .45-caliber pistol, discharging at least six shots at two cops using their parked patrol car to cut off his escape route.
“He fired at them, and they fired back,” said NYPD Deputy Commissioner Stephen Davis. “That’s when he was hit.”
A witness said Harris collapsed in the street once he was finally wounded, with a black handgun and a small pile of spent bullet shells alongside him.
The crippling gunshot came in the second of two firefights with cops while Harris was on the run after shooting a Brooklyn man during a robbery try, police said.
A half-dozen cops fired on the fleeing suspect, who squeezed off a half-dozen rounds in return from his black Taurus Millennium pistol. No police officers were wounded.
Harris was nabbed by cops in part because of his red pants, police said.
The career criminal was wearing sky blue hospital scrubs Saturday as he hobbled into Brooklyn Criminal Court to be arraigned.
Handcuffed and unable to stand, Harris sat in a chair before the bench as he was hit with several counts of first-degree and second-degree attempted murder, among other felony charges.
Judge Andrew Borrok ordered Harris held without bail and placed on suicide watch.
The accused gunman’s parents, who sat in the courtroom gallery, said they were baffled by the incident.
“I just found this out last night. You know more than I do,” said Harris’ father, who declined to give his name. “I can’t even talk right now. My head is all messed up.”
Harris’ criminal past includes a rap sheet dating to 2003, with arrests in Louisiana and New York. He is currently on probation on a robbery charge down south, said Jefferson Parish prosecutor David Wolff.
The bizarre late-night battle began when Leon Faison, 52, was loading his SUV in the darkness outside his Madison St. home before a family trip, police said.
A .40 caliber Taurus Millennium firearm was recovered at the location next to the suspect.
The burly, 6-foot-5 Faison popped the rear hatch of the vehicle and found Harris trying to steal items already packed in the SUV. The Brooklyn man then shot Faison in the arm and bolted, cops said.
The bleeding big man gave chase, spotting a pair of cops along the way.
“I got shot,” said Faison, who provided the duo with a description that included the suspect’s bright pants.
Harris was spotted running about eight blocks from the robbery scene, and the suspect soon spied the cops, too.
“He then gets behind a parked car and he starts to shoot at the cops,” said Davis. “They shoot at him.”
Four officers at the scene fired 52 shots, while Harris pumped one bullet into an unmarked police car and took off again, Davis said.
But the suspect found his way blocked by the patrol car parked in the middle of Broadway, with two police officers waiting with the vehicle.
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The suspected gunman was taken to Kings County Hospital after cops shot him in the calf during their shootout in Bushwick, Brooklyn, early Friday.
Officers Wanda Crooks and Alem-Tsehay Clarke both emptied their 16-shot weapons, with one of the two taking Harris down, police said. The suspect was listed in stable condition at Kings County Hospital.
The NYPD will investigate the shooting, but Davis suggested police acted properly despite all the shots fired.
“You have a running gun battle here. There are a lot of cops involved and it takes places in several different locations. It’s not as if everything was stationary,” Davis said.
The wounded suspect had four robbery arrests from 2003 to 2006, along with busts for gun possession in 2011 and drug possession a year later, cops said.
His Louisiana rap sheet included a drug conviction and the robbery arrest that landed him on parole.
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Thank God no innocent people were hit by the spray of bullets.
I wonder what they did hit?
“The accused gunman’s parents, who sat in the courtroom gallery, said they were baffled by the incident.”
Baffled? …”The wounded suspect had four robbery arrests from 2003 to 2006, along with busts for gun possession in 2011 and drug possession a year later, cops said.”
NYC needs more common sense gun control.
Greetings,
It sure isn’t like they show it on tv now is it?
“The wounded suspect had four robbery arrests from 2003 to 2006, along with busts for gun possession in 2011 and drug possession a year later, cops said.”
If tourists get caught with guns in NYC the judiciary claims their hands are tied because there is zero tolerance for gun possession. These tourists, according to news reports, face 5 years or more in prison yet this dude presumably had multiple “busts” for gun possession in 2011 and is running loose?
Indentured,
There’s no picture of the perp.
Wanna bet what he’d look like if there was?
I imagine that would explain it.
Generally, people might as well be throwing rocks as shooting a pistol at someone more than a few feet away, especially if that person is shooting back and/or is moving. Even at point blank range, cops will not hit someone more than half the time. At 20 feet, armed, and moving, forget about it.
Moving targets are hard to hit. Use a shotgun at fairly close range.
A friend of mine said they used to find sniper roosts by sending a guy out in the open who would move in erratic way – take two steps, stop, turn, three steps, stop, start, stop, etc. in order to draw fire. He said they were almost impossible to hit, as gun swing was impossible to control when the person was moving erratically. I cannot verify the truth of this, but he was pretty experienced.
Llpoh, depends on what type of pistol you have. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPzfWcTPRxs&feature=youtube_gdata_player
LLPOH, I mentioned this before: my buddy said the reason blacks are more scared of knives than they are of guns is because, “a gun can miss, a knife won’t”.