Crime & Safety
Gunman Suspected Of Shooting At Cops May Be In Brooklyn: NYPD
Joshua Stuart was last spotted in the Sunset Park and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn.
SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — A man who exchanged gunfire with police at an upstate hospital may be hiding out in Brooklyn, police said Sunday.
The NYPD believe Joshua Stuart, 42, was last seen in the Sunset Park and Flatbush neighborhoods of Brooklyn.
Stuart allegedly opened fire in the emergency department of Ellenville Regional Hospital near Poughkeepsie early Friday morning. He fled the hospital in a white Dodge Ram 1500, but Department of Environmental Protection Police caught up to the suspect three miles away in Vernooy Kill State Forest, officials said.
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DEC TEMPORARILY CLOSES VERNOOY KILL STATE FOREST, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. DEC Forest Rangers are assisting @nyspolice in search for Joshua Stuart in the Ellenville, New York, area. DEC urges hikers in the Ellenville area not to utilize trails in the area. https://t.co/sarnAdbUsx
— NYSDEC (@NYSDEC) September 29, 2018
Stuart fired four or five rounds at the officers when they tried to confront him and ran off into a nearby wooded area, police said.
Authorities urge anyone who sees him to call 911 immediately.
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Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).
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