Posted on 10/22/2008 12:16:42 PM PDT by BGHater
STRAPHANGERS DIVE FOR COVER IN RUSH-HOUR CHAOS
A fare-beater caught sneaking into a Queens subway last night coldly shot two cops with one of their own guns after he knocked them to the station-platform floor, authorities said.
The gunman then bolted - weapon still blazing at the wounded Anti Crime transit cops - and ran into a lieutenant who dodged the suspect's bullets and pumped four of his own into him.
The heart-pounding, rush-hour shootout at 5:15 p.m. had straphangers ducking for cover at the F-train station at 21st Street/Queensbridge in Long Island City.
The shower of bullets lasted less than a minute, Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
Undercover Officer Shane Farina, 38, was critically wounded by a bullet that slammed into his side below his bulletproof vest.
He had surgery at Elmhurst Hospital but later was giving a thumbs up to those around him, a hospital spokesman said. He was in serious but stable condition.
Partner Jason Maass, 28, also wearing a vest, was grazed in the back. He left the hospital last night but not before stopping by to check on his partner.
"Two brave police officers were shot by a suspect they were attempting to apprehend in the course of doing their job keeping us all safe," Mayor Bloomberg said at the hospital, where he, Kelly and Queens District Attorney Richard Brown rushed to comfort the heroes and their families.
"This could have been so much worse. These officers are very lucky," Bloomberg added.
Suspect Raul Nuñez, 32 - who sneaked back into the United State after he was deported to his native Dominican Republic in 2001 for a 1997 drug conviction - was at Bellevue Hospital with gunshot wounds to the legs and torso. He faces attempted-murder charges.
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I bet Bloomburg didn’t say a word about the perp being an alien.
Outside of 2 city council members, no one cares.
we do shoot +P hollow points, 124 grain. just didn’t hit anything vital i guess.
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