Wild car chase from Staten Island courthouse leaves 1 dead, another shot
A person was killed and an innocent bystander was shot in the face when a chaoti🐼c courthouse gang fight spilled out onto the streets of Staten Island Tuesday🌳.
The perps led court officers on a wild chase before plowing into a home at the corner of Fort Place and Montgomery Avenue, a witness told the 🦋Post.
The dead man, a 26-y♔ear-old, was found pinned between the roof of the van and house. A revolver was found on the windshield next to him, according to a court spokesman, Lucien Chalfꦐen. A second gun was found nearby.
Police arrested four othe🌺rs at the sꦓcene and were still searching for the minivan driver.
The innocent byst﷽ander who was shot, a 67-year-old waiting at a Jersey Street bus stop, was caught in the crossfire about an hour later when a group tried to retaliate for the earlier car strike, police sources told the Post. She is in critical condition.
The original fight broke out around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday inside the Staten Island Courthouse on Central Avenue. Severalꦏ people were kicked out and given summonses.
A black car and van soon pulled up and a group of eig🔴ht people got ouꦡt and began fighting with some of those booted from the courthouse, witnesses told the Post.
Court officer📖s came out to b♏reak up the fight and the men fled in the minivan, Chalfen said.
It headed east on Central Avenue, made a U-turnꦿ and drove west to St. Marks before making a left onto Fort Place, where it crashed into the𝔉 house.
“My heart is still pounding. It was scary. It was serious,” a witness told the Post about༒ the chaos.
Additional reporting by Larry Celona and Yoav Gonen