RSS 2.0 FeedMarch 3, 2011, Cover Stories, Bellmore Life
Bellmore EMT volunteer OK after shooting
Justin Angell, a volunteer emergency medical technician with the Bellmore Fire Department who was shot Tuesday night around 10 p.m. by the driver of a vehicle that crashed into a telephone pole on Bellmore Avenue, said on his Facebook page earlier this morning that “im still in icu but I feel ok just got up and walked a bit....I'm still in shock as to this happening in Bellmore."
According to a Nassau police report and Bellmore Fire Chief Robert Taylor, Mr. Angell, 20, of North Bellmore and a Mepham graduate, was in Bellmore Fire Department’s ambulance 6011, responding to a report of a vehicle striking a telephone pole on Bellmore Avenue at Claxton Avenue when the driver of the vehicle, still inside, opened fire on the approaching emergency medical technicians, striking Mr. Angell in the torso.
Nassau police quickly responded to the scene and confronted the armed man in his vehicle, firing shots into the vehicle and killing the man, the police stated.
On Bellmore Life's Facebook Karen Goeldner Libby said, "Very scary last night...we live across the canal from Bellmore Ave. The lights blinked (from the accident), then shortly afterwards we heard the shots, lots of people yelling. Glad to hear the fireman will be OK.
County Police Commissioner Lawrence Mulvey held a press conference but released little information on the shooter's identity, why he was carrying six different guns or where he was headed at the time he struck the telephone pole, saying the investigation was ongoing.
Mr. Angell was transported to Nassau University Medical Center in an ambulacne driven by his brother.
