chase story

A detective shoots an armed suspect after a high speed chase through the streets of New York City Saturday afternoon.
This shooting took place on the stairway to the 15th Street railway station after suspected assassin Pierre Jeantot fled the stopped train. The shooting took place after Jeantot boarded the train to escape from police detective Jimmy Doyle.
Doyle began the chase after Jeantot shot and killed a bystander on the street. After Jeantot entered the train, Doyle followed in a passerby’s car.
Margret Johnson, who was taking a walk with her baby says she nearly got hit by Doyle’s speeding vehicle.
“I heard a commotion,” Johnson said, “And I saw a big burgundy car coming in my direction.”
Johnson said that Doyle swerved out of the way before hitting her or her baby carriage. She said that Doyle’s actions had been dangerous.
“He put a lot of innocent lives in danger,” she said, “He almost hit me and my baby.”
Before being shot by Doyle, Jeantot killed three people on the passenger train. Betty Lou, of New York City, said that she saw the first of these shootings take place. Train conductor Horatio Hornblower was the first of Jeantot’s victims on the train.
“The first conductor told the man with the gun ‘you’re not going to get away with this,’” she said, “Then he shot him and I ran away.”
Ronald Evans, an officer of the New York Police Department was also shot by Jeantot while on the train. He was shot after confronting Jeantot following the shooting of Hornblower.
The chase came to a stop following the death of Peter Howe, who was the trainman in charge of the controls. Howe died of a heart attack right before the train reached the station at 35th Street. His death caused the train to hit the end of another train stopped at the station.
After the train stopped, Jeantot left the train and was shot after a confrontation with Doyle.
Police Chief Morgan Freeman said that the police department supports Doyle in his decision to shoot Jeantot.
“We regret the loss of innocent life,” he said, “In the end, we believe detective Doyle did the right thing.
He said that Doyle’s actions prevented a dangerous suspect from getting away.
“The suspect would have been capable of eluding him,” Freeman said, “Though we would have certainly liked to bring him in alive, it’s better than not brining him in at all…We commend [Doyle’s] bravery in tracking down a dangerous criminal.”