Suspect Nabbed, Hospitalized In Queens Co-op Shooting: NYPD

QUEENS, NY - A Woodside man was arrested in Queens Tuesday afternoon following a shooting and subsequent hours-long standoff inside the co-op building he lives in, authorities said.

The shooting began as a landlord-tenant dispute at at 31-31 54th St. in Woodside, an NYPD spokesperson told Patch. The dispute escalated when the gun-wielding tenant shot the building's 48-year-old super in the stomach on the fourth floor of the building about 10:57 a.m., police said.

Medics rushed the super to Elmhurst Hospital where he was listed in stable condition.

The gunman later fired shots outside a sixth floor window, but it's unclear if the shots were aimed at police responding to the scene, police said.

Officers exchanged gunfire with the alleged shooter on the sixth floor, prompting him to retreat back to his apartment where he barricaded himself.

While officers evacuated the other tenants, the NYPD used a drone camera to survey the alleged shooter's apartment, police said.

"As we were putting the camera in the apartment, we heard a gunshot from the apartment and, with the use of our camera, we saw the male laying on the floor," NYPD Chief Jeffrey Maddrey said at a press conference about 2 p.m. "He was yelling for help, our officers were able to get him to relinquish the firearm that he still had in his hand, and our emergency service unit was able to move in, put him in custody and we removed him to a local hospital."

It's believed the suspect shot himself in the chest, Maddrey added. His condition was not immediately made available.

The gunman has a "history" with the police department, but Maddrey declined to provide further details.

Nearby William Cullen Bryant High School issued a shelter-in lockdown out of precaution. The lockdown was lifted just before 1 p.m., though after-school activities are still canceled, according to a notice posted to the school's website.