News: Cops Shoot Man in Roadway Flee
(Long Island, N.Y.) A twenty-one-year-old man from Hempstead was shot by officers after getting into a wreck in Jericho. Police officers claimed that they tried to stop the young man after the collision. The accident involved his 2010 Chevy Equinox and a 2001 Acura.
Reports stated that police officers at the scene claimed that the man had been driving northbound in southbound lanes of Route 106/107. The crash occurred at roughly one in the morning and the twenty-one-year-old evaded Nassau County police officers after the accident.
Sources claimed, without much detail, that the twenty-one-year-old was somehow able to get control of the marked police vehicle. After doing so, the young man kept driving and led police through a chase to Oyster Bay. Two police officers from the Second Precinct in Muttontown were able to locate the stolen vehicle and pursued it to the place the young man was accosted.
The police chase finally came to a close at Teddy Roosevelt Park on Bay Avenue in Oyster Bay. Reports stated that when officers exited their vehicles and approached the young man he attempted to reverse the stolen car at a high speed and changed direction. Nassau County police officers claimed that he had the intention of running them over when they fired shots.
Sources claimed that he was shot multiple times and attempted to drive away after the police officers began firing. He was eventually stopped and apprehended and taken to North Shore University Medical Center for arm wounds from the gunshots. His injuries are believed to be non-life threatening.
The young man was under guard during his stay at the hospital, which reports stated will end as soon as practical. Some reports stated that the twenty-one-year-old was six-foot-three and over two-hundred pounds. He was allegedly finishing up college at Hofstra University.
Three police officers were treated and released at a local hospital along with the two people who were injured in the collision. Reports stated that the charges against him are two counts of first-degree attempted murder. Other charges include second-degree robbery, driving while intoxicated, two counts of second-degree assault, second-degree criminal mischief, and leaving the scene of an accident with personal injury.
