So far, negotiations are still taking place as numerous police, SWAT teams, authorities on helicopters, and hostage officials continue working with the suspect, who’s believed to be inside the apartment alone.
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Commissioner Bill Bratton said Tyree had a considerable arrest history and was “a very unsafe man”.
“I’m more a biography type of dude”, Tyree said last year in an interview hyping his company, Real Write Publishing LLC.
Marshals went to the home early Friday morning to deliver a warrant to the man, who then torched the home, police said.
When asked to elaborate, a message from the account said police had “kicked in my door and it popped off”.
An accused Bloods member wrote “Today I die” on Facebook while holed up in his Staten Island home, surrounded by police.
The man then reportedly barricaded himself inside the basement of the apartment. When the FDNY arrived at the scene, Hayes, 53, made contact with a man inside the building, later identified as Tyree.
“I’m coming out, Mama, ” he said, according to the New York force’s top negotiator, Lieutenant Jack Cambria.
When Tyree emerged, however, he brought an AK-47 assault weapon with him, firing at police officers-he also shot at an officer and a civilian vehicle from his window before stepping outside.
The lieutenant was shot in the “buttocks” and is listed in “serious but stable condition”. This includes leaving the gym to make and take a series of calls from approximately 10:40 a.m.to 11:15 a.m., when he departed for Staten Island.
Tyree was a suspected high-ranking member of the Bloods street gang who was wanted for violating his parole.
Tyree, responding to increasingly anxious Facebook posts from his friends, said the situation was escalating.
A cavalcade of firefighters and family members provided Hayes with an escort from the hospital to his home, where he used a pair of crutches to limp up the front porch of his Staten Island house.
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His current defense attorney declined to comment. Hayes was able to turn around, went past the bathroom where Tyree was hiding and Tyree fired again, said Nigro.
