Crime & Justice

Drunk Man Put in Ambulance Shoots Staten Island Paramedic

EDP SHOOTS EMT

The man then fled, only to be caught by a retired NYPD detective and an off-duty Sanitation Department lieutenant.

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An intoxicated and disorderly man placed in an ambulance outside the Funkey Monkey bar in Staten Island pulled a .38 caliber revolver from his waistband and shot one of the responding EMTs in Staten Island on Wednesday evening, NYPD officials said in a late-night briefing.

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