Shot fed was eyeing suspect’s B’klyn home
The FBI agent who was shot in a Brooklyn drive-by over the weekend was staking out the alleged shooter’s home when the attack occurred, touching off a broad-daylight gun battle with feds, law-enforcement sources said Sunday.
Suspect Ronell Watson, 31, lives in a two-family home on Canarsie Road just doors from the corner of Avenue N, where the ambush shooting took place, sources said.
Three agents were sitting in a parked car, investigating a violent gang, when Watson allegedly fired from inside a passing BMW that was later found at a body shop with its rear window blown out.
The unidentified FBI agent was shot in the shoulder and remained in Kings County Hospital Sunday with a non-life-threatening wound.
Watson was hit in the arm in the Saturday-afternoon shootout and was driven to Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center by a man who has been repeatedly busted in creditcard scams, sources said.
Hector Amissah, 31, was nabbed in the Kingsbrook parking lot after dropping off Watson at the ER.
Amissah’s rap sheet includes a 2010 arrest for trying to pay a Manhattan restaurant bill with a credit card that wasn’t his, sources said.
He was also busted twice in 2017 — once with a forged credit card at a Popeye’s eatery and then in a traffic stop when police found pot, two forged credit cards and a “skimmer” device that could be used to steal credit-card data.
Amissah and Watson, who was released from the hospital Saturday night, were both in federal custody with charges pending.
On Sunday, nine FBI agents were investigating the shooting scene and examined several cars parked outside Watson’s house.
People living inside denied knowing Watson, but a neighbor confirmed the suspect lived there.
“He’s tall and he’s bad. I stay away from him. He tells you, ‘Mind ya business,’ if you look at him,” the neighbor said.
Another neighbor, Tianna Gail, said she saw the wounded FBI agent sitting cross-legged in the street, leaning against his car, as an NYPD cop bandaged his back.
The agent told the cop, “I’m on the clock right now,” and the cop told him that “the bullet didn’t go through and through — it’s still in your shoulder,” she recalled.
“He seemed like a trouper,” said Gail, 23, a certified nursing assistant. “They trained him well because the pain was there — you could see by the look on his face that he was in pain — but he was talking calm, giving them a description of what was going on.”
There was no answer at Amissah’s last known address, where residents said they didn’t recognize his name.