A Frenchman, and suspected assasin, Pierre Jeantot, 36, of Nice, France was shot and killed yesterday. Jeantot managed to kill three innocent people before being shot by NYPD narcotics officer, Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle.
The chase leading up to the assasination of Jeantot occured from the 35th St. Station to the 15th St. Station in New York City.
Jeantot ended up killing three New Yorkers during the chase, most of them happening on the train he hijacked.
Betty B. Badluck, 63, of the Bronx, was the first to be killed by a sniper rifle Jeantot was using to target Doyle. Horatio C. Hornblower, 30, of White Plains was shot on the train. The last person to be killed was 15-year veteran of the NYPD, Roland Evans, 34, of Brooklyn as he tried to talk Jeantot out out of killing anyone else.
"It is always unfortunate when these incidents end in a loss of life," said Ruth L. Ess, NYPD commissioner.
The terrible events that happened yesterday afternoon were recorded on a video that the New York Times obtained through a Freedom of Information request.
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The video started with Jeantot firing an automatic rifle at Doyle on 57th Ave. Jeantot fired about five shots that police suspected were aimed towards Doyle, but ended up killing Betty B. Badluck who was pushing a stroller with her granddaughter in it. Jeantot had been firing from the roof of an apartment building at 1767 W. 57th Ave.
Doyle quickly took cover behind a tree, as shots were fired past his head, ricocheting off of the bark. Bystanders screamed as Doyle lept up from behind the tree to get inside the building. Once Doyle had climbed the stairs and reached the top of the apartment bulding, the only thing left to see was a rifle and about 8 bullet shells scattered around the deadly weapon.
Doyle spotted Jeantot running away from the building on the groud, and the chase was on. Doyle ran after Jeantot up to the Bay 50 St. Station and Jeantot boarded train number 4572. Doyle missed the train but commandeered a car down on the street and began the chase pursuing the train on the street right below the elevated tracks.
On the elevated train, Jeantot tried making his way to the controls at the front of the train. Horatio C. Hornblower, the conductor noticed Jeantot's suspiciousness and began to follow him through the train cars. Once Hornblower spoke and ordered Jeantot to stop, Jeantot fired a .44 Magnum bullet into the conductor's side immediately sending him to the floor and killing him. Jeantot didn't stop there.
Jeantot made his way to the control booth and held the conductor in the booth at gunpoint ordering him to not stop at the next train station.
Underneath the train, Doyle made his way to the second train stop but once he got out, he noticed the train wasn't planning on stopping. He ran back to his stolen car and began to race towards the train once again.
Up above, the conductor, Peter Howe, 27, of Queens that Jeantot held at gunpoint, died of a heart attack at the controls.
While this was happening, Jeantot shot and killed the veteran NYPD officer, Evans.
Once the train came to a stop, Jeantot tried escaping, but was stopped short coming down the stairs of the 15th Street Station by a penetrating bullet shot by Doyle's .38 caliber revolver.
Jeantot was allegedly working on behalf of a French drug kingpin whom Doyle had been investigating for quite some time.
According to Homeland Security records, Jeantot entered the country on November 4th, after a flight from Paris, France.
"We suspect he was associated with a crime syndicate that had been laying the groundwork for a major heroin shipment from France to New York City," said Ess. Two other men thought to be involved in the smuggling operation are being sought at this time.
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