2 U.S. marshals are on mend after Bx. gunfight
The two U.S. marshals wounded in a deadly Bronx gunfight with a suspected cop shooter are on the mend, with one expected to be released from the hospital soon, authorities said.
One of the marshals underwent surgery Friday and was resting comfortably at Jacobi Medical Center, a U.S. Marshals Service spokesman said. The second marshal could be discharged from the hospital as early as Saturday evening, the spokesman said.
The New York/New Jersey Task Force marshals were injured in a predawn Friday shootout with fugitive Andre Sterling, who was wanted for shooting a Massachusetts state trooper last month.
Authorities tracked Sterling, 35, to an apartment on Ely Ave. in Edenwald about 5:30 a.m. He started blasting as soon as marshals entered the home and was killed in the barrage of bullets, authorities said. One of the marshals was shot in the arm and leg while the other took a bullet to the leg, officials said.
Surveillance video from the scene shows NYPD cops hustling the wounded marshals to an awaiting squad car.
An NYPD warrants detective suffered a leg injury trying to pull the marshals away from the building. The detective was initially taken to Jacobi, then transferred to another hospital.
Federal officials were investigating whether the man who opened the Bronx apartment door, identified by sources as 35-year-old Grant Granderson, should face criminal charges for harboring a fugitive.
Authorities traced Sterling to the Bronx by the stolen luxury car he used to flee Massachusetts after shooting the state trooper during a Cape Cod traffic stop Nov. 20.
Connecticut State Police stopped the BMW with a Bronx woman behind the wheel, eventually steering authorities to the borough.
Sterling was wanted on charges of armed assault with intent to murder, weapons possession, assault and battery with a firearm, car theft and unauthorized use of a stolen vehicle.
The native of Jamaica also had two additional Massachusetts warrants for a second assault on a police officer and identity fraud, and faced a drug charge in Wyoming.