Cops shoot man with gun in Bx.
The mother of an ex-con gunned down in a wild Brooklyn shootout with police believes there’s more to his death than the NYPD’s version.
Lashann Tyre, a 51-yearold community activist, questioned the details of her son Nasheem Prioleau’s fatal shooting without attempting to whitewash his past. The 30-year-old father of two was killed just five days after his parole for an attempted robbery conviction that landed him in prison for the last five years.
“It sounds like something went wrong out here last night,” she told the Daily News through tears. “My son was a smart person. He was funny. He loved his kids.
“I just want to know what happened to my child.”
Prioleau, a member of the Bloods known on the street as “Trigger,” died Wednesday morning at Brooklyn Hospital, just a few hours after his last stand. Cops said close to 30 bullets were fired during the battle, although it was unclear how many were shot by Prioleau and how many by the NYPD.
Police said officers recovered his gun, a 9-mm. semiautomatic Taurus, from underneath the slain man’s body.
“We want to talk about the excessive force that was used,” said the dead man’s cousin Tracey Pinkard, 50. “We don’t know that he was even aware of who was coming after him.”
The police account of the death was straightforward: Prioleau had opened fire on a rival near Baltic and Hoyt Sts. in Boerum Hill when two NYPD officers rolled up and ordered him to drop his weapon.
The gunman and the officers then swapped gunfire, with Prioleau struck several times in the hail of bullets, sources said. The officers involved in the shooting escaped without injury, but went to New York Presbyterian-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital for evaluation.
It’s not clear if Prioleau — previously involved in four other shootings inside the 76th Precinct — actually shot the person he was targeting before things escalated once the police arrived, officials said.
Prioleau was just paroled last Thursday on a 2014 conviction for attempted robbery charges, public records show. He also served time for attempted weapon possession in 2008 and attempted assault in 2011.
Yet relatives insisted there was another side to his death, even as they remained unsure of the exact details.
“The only information we’re getting is information off the news,” said his aunt Valerie Bowens, 62. “What the news is saying, from the police. One side, and there’s more to it than meets the eye.
“What he did, or who he was to them — that’s not who he was for us.” A gangbanger ex-con who has 22 prior arrests and once beat a murder rap was shot and wounded by cops when he pointed his gun at them in a Bronx subway station early Wednesday, police said.
The shooting, just past midnight, happened less than five hours after cops in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, shot and killed a parolee who fired his gun at another man.
In the Bronx incident, Richard “Rich” Richard, 27, got into an argument with another man on the subway as it neared the 225th St. station near White Plains Road in Wakefield.
The argument spilled onto the platform after the train pulled in, with Richard firing at least once at the man, triggering a Shot Spotter alert and a 911 call, a police source said.
“Several plainclothes and uniformed officers from the 47th Precinct responded to the scene and were directed to the southbound platform, where they engaged a male in possession of a firearm,” said Assistant Chief Larry Nikunen. “Two of the officers then fired several rounds at the suspect striking him one time in the left shoulder.”
Richard was taken to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition and was charged early Wednesday evening with attempted murder, felony assault and weapons possession. Police said his .380-caliber handgun was recovered from the scene.