Posted on 10/17/2016 5:15:47 AM PDT by simpson96
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A Long Island woman has been charged with attempted murder after an NYPD officer was shot in the head with a pellet gun in Jamaica, Queens, earlier this week.
Police said a plainclothes detective was driving an unmarked car with a plainclothes sergeant in the passenger seat at around 5 p.m. on Wednesday. They were on patrol and about to turn left on 168th Street when the shooting happened.
“They heard a loud popping sound coming from the driver’s side of the vehicle. the officer on the passenger side observed her partner bleeding from the forehead,” NYPD Chief David Barrere said.
Tiara Ferebee, 24, of Riverhead, was arrested following a massive police response, CBS2’s Magdalena Doris reported.
Immediately after the shooting, detectives scoured the crime in search of the driver of a brown 2015 Nissan that police believed the shooter was driving in at the time of the incident. The discovery of a Missouri license connected to the vehicle and surveillance photos led to the arrest.
Ferebee is now facing several other charges also, including assault on a police officer with a deadly weapon, assault on a police officer, criminal possession of a weapon-loaded firearm, and reckless endangerment.
The detective was not seriously hurt.
1010 WINS’ Carol D’Auria reports police said Ferebee is not cooperating, so there is currently no motive.
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ROFL!
That would be funny ‘just desserts’.
But what if she was creating a diversion to keep them from seeing someone else?
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[The officer and car was ‘plain clothes’.]
Assuming he was white she might have just wanted to get ‘some random white guy’ in trouble while he was making a left turn — cause a collision or general mayhem.
Instead, she had the entire NYPD after her.
YES! Missouri license, they are paid to drive cross country
“But I suspect I’d vote “not guilty” on an attempted *murder* charge.”
I disagree.
I used to do varmint control (gophers) with a .17 pellet air rifle. The pellet would pass right through their bodies, which would be about 1.5” wide.
My point is, if a pellet can pass through 1.5”+ soft tissue, then it could nail a major artery and the person could bleed out. Not to mention getting vital organs.
As a kid I had a common BB gun that shot those little round steel balls. That particular Daisy air rifle did not have enough giddy-up-go to break the skin on a gopher.
’ ... a Missouri license ... ‘
Out-of-stater. Ferguson related?
An attempt to cause mayhem on the street.
Under different circumstances leftists would call this terrorism.
Right. It depends on the air pressure. Varies greatly.
Crossing state lines ... FBI. Reckless endangerment. Was it a crowded street?
Terrorism.
You just reminded me how much I miss Harambe.
Plus being shot in the face, the pellet could have blinded the officer, besides major veins/arteries being close to the surface at the neck. I would expect the prosecutor to show demos of penetration in ballistic gel.
It may be hard to imagine, I admit I was surprised myself.
Anytime you shoot someone in the head with a weapon like that it is attempted murder.
I killed a coyote in my backyard with my pellet gun (1000 fps w/.177 cal @ ~30 ft. or so). Took him a while to die, but he did.
I have a pellet air rifle, top break, single shot
It shoots a conical round, and it breaks the sound barrier as it leaves the barrel.
the round goes all the way through a fence picket, easily. It has way, way more energy than a bb gun.
It can easily kill a person.
Close range and to the face...a pellet gun could do a lot of damage.
15.4 grain .22 lead balls are even better. No problem taking out rabbits and bushytail rats.
She may have had a pellet rifle.
My pellet rifle fires pellets at 1,500 feet per second.
I suspect that you're probably correct.Actually taking a case to trial makes it very difficult for highly paid employees of the City of New York to have their 3 martini lunches at Tavern on the Green.
Any doubts as to how she votes?
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