BY: Denver Sean
Published 9 years ago
Either this man is lightning quick, or several officers of the NYPD have piss-poor aim because officers fired 84 shots at a suspect during a crazy shootout on Friday and missed their target 83 of those times.
The man they were after was eventually arrested.
via NY Daily News:
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.
You can read more about what happened here. A nearby security camera caught the entire gunfire exchange on camera. Watch below:
