Uptown Shooter Brain Dead After 14 Floor Fall

Two days ago, there were updates about a police shooting in East Harlem, but the details were murky. But not anymore: It seems that Tyrell Harris, who had been shot over the weekend may have been trying to seek revenge on his shooter when he walked through a housing complex, brandishing two pistols - one in each hand (strangely Hard Boiled) - simply shooting at buildings. One witness told Newsday, "He starts shooting in the windows. He must have had a bunch of clips, because he shot a whole lot...He didn't say anything." Two housing cops tried to stop him and ended up exchanging fire. The two officers were shot (but are fine now) and one tried to chase Harris in a building. Harris managed to run up to his aunt's 14th floor apartment and decided to jump out the window. And he survived, with a fractured skull, but may be brain dead. Harris' aunt, Tonya Harris, believes he didn't mean to shoot the police and expressed her sorrow to the police officers, and also said, "My nephew was a good kid in spite of his record. Unfortunately, he felt he could handle matters in his own hands."

Email This Entry


Comments (6) [rss]

If I had a buffalo nickel for every time I read some scumbag was a "good kid" except for doing whatever degenerate act he did that required the redeeming explanation.

I think the aunt should be cut some slack; I think there's a large amount of cognitive dissonance when the little boy you watched grow up turns into a total screwup.

NB: despite what one sees in the movies, the two-hands-two-pistols fusillade is a good way to miss the broad side of a barn.

user-pic

Remember to sign yourself up as an organ donor everybody- wish he had.

user-pic

In the Times, they said that people were building little makeshift shrines for him: I don't really get that. Wasn't he shooting the whole place up? Is the perception that the cops were somehow wrong for stopping a guy who was acting like Yosemite Sam?

user-pic

hell, if double-fisted shooter = good kid, then I'm totally in line for sainthood. I haven't even shot anyone, where's my ego-stroking?

that DVD art made me laugh my ass off. well done!

Post a comment (Comment Policy)

Tips

Get your daily dose of New York first thing in the morning from our weekday newsletter, now in beta.

About Gothamist

Gothamist is a website about New York. More

Editor: Jen Chung
Publisher: Jake Dobkin

Newsmap

newsmap.jpg

Contribute

Latest Tip:

It's the same media that NEVER mentioned Muslims' hatred of Israel as a possible motive for 9/11.
[more]

Latest Photo:

Subscribe

Use an RSS reader to stay up to date with the latest news and posts from Gothamist.

All Our RSS

Follow us