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Gunmen open fire on paramedics in Gary, Indiana
WBBM 780 Chicago ^ | September 3, 2009

Posted on 09/03/2009 6:48:12 AM PDT by KeyLargo

Gunmen open fire on paramedics in Gary

Thursday, 03 September 2009 7:16AM

GARY, Ind. (STNG) -- Two men shot at two paramedics Tuesday night after the medics dropped off a patient in Gary, Ind., police said.

Gary police Cpl. Gabrielle King said one medic was standing at the rear of the ambulance in the 5100 block of West 4th Avenue with the doors open, and the other was standing at its front at 5:50 p.m.

Suddenly, she said, two males drove around the ambulance in a red two-door Geo Tracker and and fired four shots.

Next, she said, the men pulled in front of the ambulance and fired one more shot in its direction.

King said the bullet shattered the ambulance's windshield and traveled through the vehicle, exiting out the open rear doors. The medic standing behind the ambulance told police he heard a whistling sound.

The medics work for Prompt Ambulance Service, and one of the men filed a police report on behalf of the company.

The men in the Geo Tracker fled the scene in an unknown direction, King said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: crime; guns; healthcare; indiana; paramedics
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Many inner cities, (all run by Democrats), are more dangerous than cities in Iraq

1 posted on 09/03/2009 6:48:12 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

I could say something about the people in cities like this. But I would be received as a racist. It seems like this is the norm in liberal socialist cities.


2 posted on 09/03/2009 6:52:32 AM PDT by RoshYisrael
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To: KeyLargo

In a tracker?? They’re kidding, right??


3 posted on 09/03/2009 6:52:37 AM PDT by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: KeyLargo

Probably hoping to ransack the ambulance for drugs.


4 posted on 09/03/2009 6:54:30 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: KeyLargo

What kind of writing is on the door of ambulance?


5 posted on 09/03/2009 6:54:59 AM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: KeyLargo

This is not a new event.
Been going on in the inner cities for decades.

The gunmen if found should be shot just for driving a geo. /sarc

What the article failed to give insight too is the possiblity that one of the EMTs was the target of a personal attack (disgruntled spouse/lover/family member).

Or the possiblity that the patient was the target and the dipsticks did not relize the patient was no longer on board.


6 posted on 09/03/2009 6:55:07 AM PDT by Global2010 (Chic Conservative Catholic Thug)
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To: KeyLargo

That Geo might get up to 85mph......downhill with a tailwind.


7 posted on 09/03/2009 6:55:13 AM PDT by Pistolshot (Brevity: Saying a lot, while saying very little.)
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To: KeyLargo
The shooters were just exercising their civil right to protest the racist US health care system and express their support for Democrat health care reform.
8 posted on 09/03/2009 6:55:32 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: xcamel

LOL Like minded.


9 posted on 09/03/2009 6:55:47 AM PDT by Global2010 (Chic Conservative Catholic Thug)
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To: RoshYisrael
Michael Jackson, who grew up in Gary Indiana would just say,

"BEAT IT."

10 posted on 09/03/2009 6:55:54 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: KeyLargo

Is the writing on the door of the ambulance Arabic?


11 posted on 09/03/2009 6:57:27 AM PDT by muddler
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LOL That is now 3 of us that are taking potshots at the perps car.

Have they no shame.
Doing drive bys in a Geo.


12 posted on 09/03/2009 6:59:40 AM PDT by Global2010 (Chic Conservative Catholic Thug)
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To: muddler

That pic is from the middle east as the poster said.


13 posted on 09/03/2009 7:00:43 AM PDT by eastforker (Lately the threads on FR are either about (.)!(.) or ( ! ))
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Ah, LOL


14 posted on 09/03/2009 7:02:53 AM PDT by muddler
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To: xcamel

That’s the favorite ride for the Amish!


15 posted on 09/03/2009 7:04:22 AM PDT by thethirddegree
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To: Global2010

Needs a bumper sticker: “When I grow up, I wanna be a Jeep”


16 posted on 09/03/2009 7:04:22 AM PDT by 50cal Smokepole (Effective gun control involves effective recoil management)
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To: eastforker

The poster did not make that clear. MHO.


17 posted on 09/03/2009 7:04:26 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: eastforker

Have you ever been to Dearborn a suburb of Detroit? That same writing is on billboards....


18 posted on 09/03/2009 7:05:42 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: Global2010

You could probably PUSH it faster downhill than the engine can do it.


19 posted on 09/03/2009 7:07:43 AM PDT by Pistolshot (Brevity: Saying a lot, while saying very little.)
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To: KeyLargo

There are many questionable statements by the ambulance crew.

The perps use of a red Geo Tracker as the drive-by vehicle is way out there.


20 posted on 09/03/2009 7:09:21 AM PDT by managusta (For those who feel, life is a tragedy. Those who think, based on factual evidence, it is a farce)
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