Garland Tyree, Staten Island Ex-Con, Live-Facebooks Fiery Standoff With NYPD, FDNY

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UPDATE, 1 p.m.: Police are confirming the suspect has been shot dead.

UPDATE, 11:55 a.m.: ABC7 reports that several gunshots were just heard coming from the home where Tyree is barricaded. And Anthony DePrimo, another freelancer on-site, reports: “Shots fired by police and suspect, family grieving on scene.”

UPDATE, 11:20 a.m.: The standoff is still underway, five hours after it began, says an NYPD spokesperson. The authorities are negotiating with him by phone. A little bit ago, DNAinfo also got Tyree on the phone. “I don’t know what they want,” he tells the news site. “They just kicked in my door. ... I’m a person that takes life as it comes. It is what it is. ... I’m at peace.”

UPDATE, 10 a.m.: Police Commission Bill Bratton, speaking at the scene of the standoff, says the suspect — identified as Bloods gang member Garland Tyree, 38 — was served a probation violation notice early Friday morning, at which point he apparently started a fire in his house. The ex-prisoner, released last July, is believed to be armed with an assault rifle, police say.

“Today I die,” wrote Staten Island resident Garland Tyree on Facebook around 6:30 a.m. on Friday morning.

One half-hour earlier, Tyree shot an FDNY firefighter in the right hip and the left ankle, sending him to Richmond University Medical Center in “serious but stable condition,” says an FDNY spokesperson.

The firefighter was part of a team that had responded to a call reporting a fire at 15 Destiny Court — in quiet, leafy Mariners Harbor — only minutes earlier.

Staten Island Live reports that the FDNY was called to the scene after the U.S. Marshals Service “attempted to serve a warrant to an individual” and “the person set fire to his home and began shooting.”

This was the scene around 6:30 a.m., when Tyree wrote the ominous Facebook status, according to Staten Island Live:

An enormous number of emergency officials are on the scene — including heavily-armed Emergency Service Unit cops, Haz-Mat officers and about 60 firefighters.

At least three helicopters are flying over the area and there is a heavy smell of smoke in the air.

Man is still inside the house.

“They kicked in my door and it popped off,” Tyree wrote to concerned friends responding to his initial status on Facebook.

His friends’ replies include:

• ”This is Abu godson this is what we talked about Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Allahu Akbar”
• “Awww so sorry this is happening don’t let them win that’s what they want”
• “I ask you god to please watch over my brother in Jesus Name please protect him at this time Lord god in Jesus Name amen please shield him”

A few days earlier, on August 11, Tyree posted an old photo of himself as a teenager, appearing in a local newspaper in connection to a party shooting in Tompkinsville, Staten Island.

Tyree, who calls himself “SI,” had recently written a book about a gangster spending life in prison who “restructures his organization with help from his soldiers and his OGs” from behind bars.