Posted on 10/22/2008 1:06:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The humble cop who took down an illegal immigrant who shot two other officers last night in a Queens subway station said today, "I'm not a hero."
Lt. Gary Abrahall put four bullets into Raul Nuñez, who jumped a turnstyle and then coldly shot two cops -- Shane Farina, who was critically wounded, and Jason Maass, who was grazed with a bullet -- with one of their own guns.
"The cops that took the bullets, they're the heroes," Abrahall said today outside his house.
Farina took a bullet in the abdomen and it exited through his sternum.
"[Farina] is doing as well as can be expected," said Dario Centorcelli, of Elmhurst Hospital. He had three hours of surgery and afterwards was communicating with family members, who seemed to be in good spirits.
Officer Maass, who was grazed by a bullet in his back, was discharged from the hospital last night.
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, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
The crackling burst of violence occurred after Nuñez swiped a student MetroCard, setting off an alarm in the token booth on the upper level where Abrahall was stationed, authorities said.
Abrahall radioed Maass and Farina about the fare-beater, and the two cops grabbed Nuñez and got one handcuff on him. He immediately began to struggle, and knocked them to the ground.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
‘Later in custody, another source said, Nuñez, who sneaked back into the United State after he was deported to his native Dominican Republic in 2001 for a 1997 drug conviction, “indicated that he was afraid of being deported. He had been deported once before and he was afraid of going back.”’
Nice work.
Interesting entry and exit.............
Seems odd to me.............
With attempted murder on two policeman, he can pretty much stop worrying about being sent back to the old country.
The cop was on the ground, with the dirtbag standing over him shooting.
Okay...so the bullet did a u-turn?
He’ll be sued.
So this will become the new criminal defense, fear of being deported drove the man to shoot police officers. If they had just let him use the stolen subway card, he wouldn’t have shot them.
Has Bloomberg declared NYC a sanctuary city? If he has, shame on him.
When are those in government going to be held responsible for failing to secure our borders?
How many dead, shot up, wounded, raped and robbed Americans will it take for these politicians to get off their asses and do their jobs?
I don't know what the bullet did, but certainly if you're lying on the ground, trying to shield yourself from a guy pointing a gun at you, and the gunman is by your feet, a bullet could enter your lower abdomen from the side and exit through your sternum. Of course, it also could have ricocheted off a rib or two, but I don't even think that had to happen.
The description of the wound doesn't say the bullet went straight in the front of the abdomen and straight out the front of the sternum. There are all kinds of angles possible.
Just one per politician, but it's going to have to members of their own family before they notice.
Voting the scum out would be a lot quicker and easier to arrange.
Four to nothing, you lose.
It's been a sanctuary city for years--no one has changed it. Bloomberg, Giuliani, Dinkins... I believe it first became a sanctuary under Ed Koch.
New York became a sanctuary city, where illegal immigrants enjoy some measure of protection, through an executive order signed by Mayor Ed Koch in 1989, five years before Giuliani became mayor in January 1994.
But if Giuliani inherited the policy, he reissued it and seemed to embrace it.
At a June 1994 press conference, Giuliani decried anti-illegal immigration policies as unfair and hostile.
“Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens,” Giuliani said at the time. “If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you’re one of the people who we want in this city. You’re somebody that we want to protect, and we want you to get out from under what is often a life of being like a fugitive, which is really unfair.”
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=3459498&page=1
Seems odd to me.............
Bullets can do some strange things. One of my relatives was shot square in the chest and the .22 bullet traveled down the inside of the rib cage hitting a lung, liver, and spleen. Then it traveled upward and exited his armpit. We thought he was shot twice when we assumed that both holes were entry wounds. I was amazed that a bullet could do that.
He survived BTW, and joked that the .22 round only pissed him off (c:
It may have hit a rib and ricocheted
Maybe Lt. Gary Abrahall should be teaching pistol fire to the local cops.
Good job.
Wouldn't be the first "magic bullet"...or "lugie"...for that matter. lol!!
Small caliber bullets have a reputation for bouncing off of body parts. I've worked in a ER....I know.
But wasn't it the cop's own gun? Doubt cops are carrying .22's, .25's.....At the very least...I hope they are carrying .38's.
Anyway...I just found it interesting....
FWIW-
Wouldn't be the first "magic bullet"...or "lugie"...for that matter. lol!!
Small caliber bullets have a reputation for bouncing off of body parts. I've worked in a ER....I know.
But wasn't it the cop's own gun? Doubt cops are carrying .22's, .25's.....At the very least...I hope they are carrying .38's.
Anyway...I just found it interesting....
FWIW-
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