Nov 14, 2006 6:35 am US/Eastern
Cops Subdue Man Shooting Sub-Machine Gun
NEW YORK (CBS/AP) ―
The commute home for thousands of people in Jamaica, Queens was turned upside down last evening when a man walked along the streets firing a machine gun into the air. The man was shot by police after he wouldn't drop the weapon. One witness - Vincent Ho - said he heard seven shots.
"It was just pow, pow, pow, pow, pow," said Vincent Ho, who was at a dentist's office and claimed he heard at least seven shots from the machine gun.
Shoppers and commuters on the busy commercial strip in the Jamaica section of Queens scrambled for cover.
Police, who received several 911 calls about the gunshots, said they confronted the gunman around 5:45 p.m. Monday night in an area that's crowded with shops and medical offices. The gunman, who was shot in a parking lot behind a row of stores after an exchange of gunfire, was taken to a hospital, police said; his name and condition weren't immediately disclosed.
Three people who had been walking with the man were taken into custody, and the machine gun was recovered in the parking lot, the New York Police Department said. No other injuries were immediately reported.
Police sealed off the area in the middle of rush hour while they hunted for bullets and other clues. A dozen buses, blocked by police crime scene tape and barricades, sat parked for an hour, and lines of commuters stretched for blocks.
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