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Jamaican accused of shooting NY cops
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter
Friday, July 13, 2007
A mug shot of Robert Ellis, who is accused of shooting two New York police officers on Monday. US Authorities say Ellis was born in Jamaica. (Photo: NYPD)
ONE of three men arrested by the New York police for the alleged shooting and injury of two police officers in the New York borough of Brooklyn on Monday has been identified as 34-year-old Jamaican Robert Ellis.
Ellis, an ex-convict, was listed on the New York Police Department's website, www.nypd.com, as their most wanted fugitive.
He was arrested yesterday morning near a highway in Pennsylvania by officers from the United States Marshals Service, the Pennsylvania State Police and the New York City police.
His alleged accomplices have been identified as Lee Woods, 29, and Dexter Bostic, both born in New York. Bostic was arrested on Wednesday night on the same highway, but Ellis reportedly ran off in bushes and eluded the police before being held yesterday.
Woods was arrested a few hours after the shooting.
The injured cops, 23-year-old Russel Timoshenko, and Herman Yan, suffered different fates. Yan was released from hospital after he was shot in the chest and left arm, but Timoshenko, who was shot in the face and neck, was, up to press time, battling for life in hospital. He is paralysed from the neck down, has swelling to his brain and unable to breathe on his own.
The alleged attack occurred after the cops stopped the three men who were travelling in a BMW sports utility vehicle on Monday. Bostic and Ellis allegedly opened fire as the two cops approached the vehicle. The New York police claimed that Woods then sped off and ditched the vehicle four blocks away before hiding the guns.
Ellis, who was born in St Andrew in April 1973, is said to have a long history of arrests and deviant behaviour in the United States.
Detective Cheryl Christin from the office of NYPD's Deputy Commissioner for Public Information told the Observer that Ellis had been arrested eight times between March 1991 and December last year for several offences including rape, sodomy, burglary, criminal use of a firearm and assault.
He is also registered as a sex offender in the state of New York. He was sentenced to 10 1/2 years after he and another man sexually attacked a Queens woman.
The New York police say they have linked a gun used in the shooting of the officers to a drive-by shooting in Queens, New York on Saturday, which they said was the result of a dispute over a prostitution turf.
Jamaican accused of shooting NY cops
KARYL WALKER, Observer staff reporter
Friday, July 13, 2007
A mug shot of Robert Ellis, who is accused of shooting two New York police officers on Monday. US Authorities say Ellis was born in Jamaica. (Photo: NYPD)ONE of three men arrested by the New York police for the alleged shooting and injury of two police officers in the New York borough of Brooklyn on Monday has been identified as 34-year-old Jamaican Robert Ellis.
Ellis, an ex-convict, was listed on the New York Police Department's website, www.nypd.com, as their most wanted fugitive.
He was arrested yesterday morning near a highway in Pennsylvania by officers from the United States Marshals Service, the Pennsylvania State Police and the New York City police.
His alleged accomplices have been identified as Lee Woods, 29, and Dexter Bostic, both born in New York. Bostic was arrested on Wednesday night on the same highway, but Ellis reportedly ran off in bushes and eluded the police before being held yesterday.
Woods was arrested a few hours after the shooting.
The injured cops, 23-year-old Russel Timoshenko, and Herman Yan, suffered different fates. Yan was released from hospital after he was shot in the chest and left arm, but Timoshenko, who was shot in the face and neck, was, up to press time, battling for life in hospital. He is paralysed from the neck down, has swelling to his brain and unable to breathe on his own.
The alleged attack occurred after the cops stopped the three men who were travelling in a BMW sports utility vehicle on Monday. Bostic and Ellis allegedly opened fire as the two cops approached the vehicle. The New York police claimed that Woods then sped off and ditched the vehicle four blocks away before hiding the guns.
Ellis, who was born in St Andrew in April 1973, is said to have a long history of arrests and deviant behaviour in the United States.
Detective Cheryl Christin from the office of NYPD's Deputy Commissioner for Public Information told the Observer that Ellis had been arrested eight times between March 1991 and December last year for several offences including rape, sodomy, burglary, criminal use of a firearm and assault.
He is also registered as a sex offender in the state of New York. He was sentenced to 10 1/2 years after he and another man sexually attacked a Queens woman.
The New York police say they have linked a gun used in the shooting of the officers to a drive-by shooting in Queens, New York on Saturday, which they said was the result of a dispute over a prostitution turf.
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