Utica Ave Trains - 4:30ish / Cops, Helicopters, EMS on EP

brownie

For the past half hour cops & EMS have been racing bak & forth on E.P. (around Washington) & there are helicopters too--what is going on?

MOD NOTE: Merged the thread on the Prospect Heights board into the one on the Crown Heights board - j

cccc

They were probably heading down Eastern towards Utica

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/nyc/090430_Police_Involved_Shooting_in_Brooklyn

mougar

That used to be my subway stop

xlizellx

Subject: Utica Ave Trains - 4:30ish

I was on my way home from work and after the PACKED B46 ride to Eastern Parkway and Utica Avenue, I saw that the train station was closed down. The police wouldn't say that happened nor could they tell us if the next train stations down the line were still operating.

i walked with the hundred or so other people down Eastern Parkway until we hit Kingston (which luckily had trains running). When I took the 3 to Franklin Avenue I was hit with a wave of people looking for the B45 to get to the other end of Crown Heights. There must have been 50 people waiting at the corner of Franklin Avenue and St. Johns.

Anyone know what happened?

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http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=50322

xlizellx

thanks -- i wouldn't have thought to look on the Prospect Heights board.

jeffrey

A few more shaky details trickle in...
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=resources/traffic&id=6789736

WABC 7 Eyewitness News wrote: Eyewitness News

BROOKLYN (WABC) -- A police-involved shooting inside the Utica train station in Brookyn is causing subway delays.

According to police, officers approached a suspect in the Utica Avenue subway station for unknown reasons.

The suspect then stabbed the officer in the shoulder with a screwdriver, police said. That is when shots were fired and the suspect was hit in the leg.

The officer and the suspect were transported to Kings County Hospital. There is no immediate word on their conditions.

***edited to add:

garnett

Subject: Eastern Parkway

From what I understand, there was a shooting in the train station. Two individuals were injured!

brooklyn security

i wounder what was the name of the boy who got grazed in the shooting? is he fine?

rainbowthespian

Oh you silly cops. Aren't you trained to disarm a feller with a screwdriver WITHOUT shooting civilians?

king without a crown

Police are trained to use Deadly Physical Force when it is being used against a civilian or a Police Officer. Let me plunge a screwdriver in your chest and see what you do.