Gunman’s run from cops is a total flop
Bx. susp leaps from roof to fire escape, lands in hosp
The armed Bronx man ended up in the hospital after he fell three stories while trying to leap from one building to another as he escaped from police, authorities said Tuesday.
Steven Paulino, 27, was in the intensive care unit at St. Barnabas Hospital with serious but nonlife-threatening injuries — and his mother claimed he suffered nothing worse than a broken wrist.
Police encountered Paulino around 8 a.m. Saturday when they responded to a 911 call about a dispute on Sedgwick Ave. in Kingsbridge. There officers found Paulino harassing a woman, said law enforcement sources.
Paulino made a run for it, firing a shot in the air as he took off, cops said.
He tossed his gun, headed into a two-story building on Webb Ave., and made his way to the roof.
What happened next was caught on video. Paulino ran across the roof, paused briefly at the edge, and then jumped toward a fire escape on the building next door.
For a split second as he sailed through the air, he looked as if he was wearing a superhero’s cape.
He made it across to the fire escape — but he couldn’t hold on, the video shows.
Instead, he bounced off, and fell to the alley below. Paulino hit the ground with a thud, and he was soon surrounded by police officers.
“It sounded like when you hit a wall really, really hard,” witness Liliana Ramos, 28, said, recalling the moment Paulino hit the wall. “I heard the police scream ‘don’t f-----g move. We saw the guy on the floor bleeding from his head.”
“It’s crazy,” the woman Paulino threatened told the Daily News. “You see him hesitate before he jumps. It’s like he knows what he’s doing is crazy.”
Paulino has a girlfriend and two daughters, his mother said.
“It’s a miracle that he’s alive,” said his mother, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Paulino is on painkillers, drifting in and out of consciousness, she said.
The wanna-be stuntman’s victim said she and Paulino have known each other since high school. He went to her home on Saturday, claiming that she sent him a disrespectful text about him and his brother, a rapper known as Snoopy Dinero.
“I’ve known him for a long time,” the woman said outside her apartment building. “Right now he’s really not in the right state of mind. He’s using a lot of heavy drugs.”
Her mother called police as Paulino stood outside her door, screaming “B---- come outside! I’m gonna f-----g kill you and your husband!”
When cops showed up “he got scared and ran,” Paulino’s mother said.
“When he tried to grab the fire escape, that’s when he broke his wrist. Thank God. God has given him another chance to live a good life.”
Police found a pistol in the area after the chase — but Paulino’s mom doubts her son was packing a weapon.
“He doesn’t have any gun that I know of. If he had a gun, the police would have arrested him,” she said. “I’ve never seen him with a gun.” ”
Paulino is charged with assault, weapons possession, reckless endangerment and other crimes.
He’s changed. It’s the drugs. It’s not even him,” his victim said. “I feel like he doesn’t need to go to jail. He needs to go to rehab.”