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Hospital Shooting Suspect Arrested While Friend Claims He "Would Never Do Nothing Like That"

111111wayman.jpg Police say they've caught the man who opened fire in a Bronx Emergency Room waiting area Wednesday night in an apparent gang fight. Michael (Mills) Wayman, 29, allegedly a member of the gang Burnside Money Getters, has been charged with assault and weapons possession after police found him in a Hamilton Heights apartment yesterday. Wayman's intended target was not shot, but a 37-year-old nurse was hit with bullet fragments in his shoulder, and a security guard, 42, was also hit with a ricocheting bullet. Fortunately, both are in stable condition.

Witnesses tell the Daily News that Wayman summoned a man out of the E.R. after tracking him down at the hospital, where he'd sought treatment for a gash under his eye from an earlier fight. “He goes back to the waiting area and all hell breaks loose,” witness Cecilia Belle-Singleton tells the News. "You heard ‘Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!’" Wayman fled after the alleged shooting, but the NYPD’s Regional Fugitive Task Force caught up with him yesterday.

Police sources say the shooting arose from a gang feud between the Riverpark Towers Crew and their Money Getters rivals. But Karen Brown, a family friend of Wayman's, tells the Post, "I know he would never do nothing like that. The family will stand behind him."

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  • U.N. Owen

    We should do what they do in China - put a bullet in these fools', and send the family a bill.

    Garbage in, garbage out.

  • Guest

    This attitude that a family will stick behind you no matter what - could this be precisely the reason why these kids always take the easy road out?

  • whitecastlerock

    He's a good kid. They need some midnight basketball tournaments to keep kids off the streets. Need 10 million for community centers too...

  • more evidence that the stop and frisk policy needs to end..........right.

  • m015094

    So I guess he WOULD do something like that. 

    "Burnside Money Getters" has got to be the gayest gang name I've ever heard. 

  • ganghiscon

    You've not heard of the Very Crispy Gangsters?

  • Maggie O'Keeffe

    Double negative, yikes.

  • Peanut_Butter

    I don't get it.  So he WOULD do something like that?

  • FU Boy

    That's what they're saying.  

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