Cops and Robbers
NYPD Fires 84 Rounds at Suspect, All but One Miss Their Target
“You have a running gun battle here. There are a lot of cops involved and it takes place in several different locations. It’s not as if everything was stationary.”
In the early morning hours of September 4th, 27-year-old Jerrol Harris was found rummaging through a car by its owner, Leon Faison, in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick. After Harris shot him in the arm with a stolen .40 caliber pistol, Faison tried to chase him down, and eventually ran into two police officers on the street. After providing a description of Harris, the officers pursued the suspect, and eventually found him several blocks away.
What ensued was embarrassing to say the least. After being spotted by the cops, Harris fired 11 shots at them, hitting an unmarked police car. Now with backup, a total of four cops fired back with 52 bullets, all of which missed Harris as he fled. He eventually ran into two more cops, who fired an additional 32 bullets. One of those bullets struck Harris in the calf, which convinced him to surrender to the NYPD.
All told, the police officers fired 84 rounds at a fleeing (though admittedly dangerous) suspect in a densely populated neighborhood, and only one managed to land on the intended target. NYPD Deputy Commissioner Stephen Davis excused the actions of the officers by saying “You have a running gun battle here. There are a lot of cops involved and it takes place in several different locations. It’s not as if everything was stationary.”
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