Three suspects have now been arrested after a police-involved shooting following a robbery at a cell phone store in Brooklyn Thursday.
Alan Francois, 25, of Brooklyn, was charged with robbery; Altariq Mciver, 39, of Queens, was charged with robbery and a firearm charge; and Marquis Riley, 25, of Brooklyn, was charged with robbery.
Around 11 a.m. at a Verizon on Avenue P in the Bensonhurst section, two men entered the Verizon store armed with a firearm and announced a robbery. The suspects ordered all store employees to a back room and, according to the New York City Police Department, they proceeded to take cell phones.
The two suspects jumped into a waiting car and fled the scene with a third man, but a store manager who watched the robbery from a security camera followed them in his car.
He was able to give police a description of the vehicle — a black Jeep — then flagged down police. Multiple law enforcement vehicles tried to pull over the Jeep.
The getaway car struck two other vehicles before crashing into a tree near Avenue O and East 14th Street, police said. The suspects had gotten out of the car and started to flee, when police said one of them pointed a gun at them, prompting the officer to open fire.
Mciver was hit twice in the torso. He was taken to Kings County Hospital and is stable.
Two police officers were taken to Kings County Hospital for tinnitus.
According to police, a 9mm Taurus semi-automatic gun was recovered at the shooting location. A second gun was found in a bag under a nearby car. A Taser and police scanner were recovered in the getaway vehicle.
(Source: WABC)
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