Crime & Safety
LI Shooting Suspect Arrested In NE Queens After Miles-Long Chase
A man shot his ex-wife in her Long Island home, then led cops on a miles-long car chase that ended in northeast Queens with his arrest.
WHITESTONE, QUEENS — A man shot his ex-wife in her Long Island home, then led cops on a miles-long car chase that ended in northeast Queens with his arrest, according to Suffolk police.
Jiuber Mejia-Chicas shot the mother of his child at her Holtsville home about 9:25 p.m. Sunday, then shot himself and raced off in a 2005 Ford escape, police said.
Highway Patrol Sgt. Justin Carey soon spotted Mejia-Chicas, 35, driving west on the Long Island Expressway and tried to pull him over, police said.
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But the man wouldn't stop and instead continued into Nassau County, then entered Queens.
Police officers caught up to him about 10:15 p.m. on the Cross Island Parkway near the Whitestone Expressway — more than 40 miles away from the scene of the shooting — and arrested him on charges of assault and criminal use of a firearm.
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He was brought to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The shooting victim, identified by the New York Post as Mejia-Chicas' ex-wife, suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
Reported by Patch editor Ryan Bonner.
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