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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Ex-con who shot rifle into NYC crowd has long rap sheet, was on parole
2022-05-18
Not at all ex, as it turns out — merely between engagements.
[NYPOST] A career criminal is in jug after police said he shot up a crowded Brooklyn intersection last week, sending more than 20 people scrambling for safety, sources said.

Shocking surveillance photos show the gunman — identified by sources as Terrel Norman, 36 — clutching an automatic rifle on East 102 Street before jumping into a Nissan Sentra with a pal.

Cops pulled the car over several blocks away and arrested both men, the sources said.

None of the intended targets were hit.

Norman has a history of emotional disturbance and a lengthy rap sheet that includes more than two dozen busts, a stint in state prison on an armed robbery conviction, and a pending Brooklyn gun case, according to records.

In his most recent arrest police said Norman was pulled over in March on a traffic violation when cops determined he was allegedly driving without a license — and a loaded .45-caliber handgun inside the vehicle, the sources said.

He was initially released on bail but the bail was rescinded after prosecutors didn’t get an indictment in the case in five days — as required by state speedy trial statutes.

Police could not determine if the gun in the car belonged to him or one of his passengers, and are awaiting DNA results to determine if they have a case.

"This individual has no regard for consequence," one law enforcement source told The Post. "You have someone, multiple warrants, parole at various times or probation, and he has a wreckage every in his life.”
Mentally ill leads to poor impulse control? The usual story, and New York City is determined that such people will not get the help they need.
Posted by:Fred

#3  ...well, not quite.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-05-18 09:28  

#2  "Automatic" rifle? I doubt it seriously. Probably a semi-auto, but no one in NYC has the intelligence to understand the difference. Fully-automatic weapons have been banned (illegally) since at least the 1930s.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2022-05-18 09:16  

#1  


YEP! those NYC gun controls are really working for Felons, Thugs, and Gang Bangers.

Now convicted Felons need not worry of an Honest Citizen defending themselves.
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-05-18 07:35  

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