UPDATE: Radio traffic from incident where FDNY lieutenant shot by Bloods gang member
UPDATE
Below is FDNY radio traffic from Alertpage during yesterday’s (Friday’s) incident on Long Island where Lt. James Hayes was shot in the ankle and the hip. The gunman, Garland Tyree, was later shot and killed when he confronted police. More details below.
The NYPD says it all began just before 6 a.m., when officers along with U.S. Marshals arrived at 15 Destiny Court in Mariners Harbor to execute an arrest warrant for a man identified as Garland Tyree on a probation violation.
According to authorities, Tyree detonated a smoke grenade. Firefighters arrived, and Lieutenant James Hayes led a search and rescue, crawling on the floor and speaking with Tyree.
Seconds later, police say Tyree fired four shots, hitting the 53-year-old Hayes in the ankle and hip. He was taken to Richmond University Medical Center in stable condition.
“Miraculously, the lieutenant is in stable condition and these wounds are not life-threatening,” said Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro.
The East Coast head of the Bloods gang — who wounded a firefighter after torching his own Staten Island house Friday morning during a confrontation with US marshals — is dead after a gunfight with cops, law enforcement sources said.
The gunman, 38-year-old Garland Tyree, had come out of his home shooting again at officers around 11:45 a.m., and authorities responded with gunfire and tear gas.
Tyree, who went by the nickname “Murder,” was fatally shot by an Emergency Services Unit cop in the exchange, the sources added.
EARLIER
A Bloods gang leader wanted on a federal warrant shot a firefighter during a tense standoff in Mariners Harbor, then started posting on Facebook, law enforcement sources told the Advance.
Tyree, who’s described by sources as the leader of the Bloods on the East Coast, barricaded himself inside a home at 15 Destiny Court, then set it ablaze, sources said.
He then shot a responding FDNY lieutenant in the ankle and hip, sources said.
Ryan Sit, Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News:
Sources identified the suspect as Garland Tyree, 38.
“Today I die,” he wrote on Facebook just minutes after allegedly firing.
As concerned friends asked what was going on, Tyree responded, “They kicked in my door and it popped off.”
After the firefighter was hurt, the suspected shooter barricaded himself in the home. SWAT teams are trying to coax him out of a basement apartment, aerial footage shows.
A law enforcement source identified the suspect as Garland Tyree, an ex-con with an extensive criminal history, according to a search of New York prison records.
Larry Celona, Natasha Velez & Yaron Steinbuch, New York Post:
The page identifies him as a Staten Island resident who is the CEO and founder of Real Write Publishing.
Garland wrote on his website that he founded his company in 2006 after he discussed with a friend and mentor “the silliness contained in a lot of popular Urban Fiction and the vacuum that it left for the more gritty and talented writers to step in.”
Tyree said he penned his first novel, “The Trey Way,” in 2009. After spending more than 18 years away from Staten Island, he returned and formed Real Write Publishing, he wrote.
