Midtown police-involved shooting: Suspect charged in attempted robbery, assault of off-duty cops at Penn Station
The man accused of attempting to rob and assaulting two off-duty officers in Penn Station leading to a shooting is now charged in the crimes.
Jahmar Stewart, 32, is charged with attempted robbery and assault. He remains hospitalized at Bellevue Hospital with a gunshot wound.
An off-duty officer shot Stewart during an attempted robbery at Penn Station in Midtown Manhattan during the height of rush hour on Wednesday , according to police.
Law enforcement officials say a couple, a husband and wife, were boarding an LIRR train between tracks 18 and 19 around 7 p.m., when the Stewart tried to rob the husband, an off-duty NYPD officer.
Stewart allegedly wound up in a scuffle with the husband, and that's when police say the wife, also an off-duty NYPD officer, pulled out her gun and shot the suspect in the arm and stomach.
The shooting came as quite a shock for a trainload of commuters bound for Ronkonkoma, who watched stunned, as police tended to the bleeding suspect in the middle of the platform.
Stewart is expected to recover. No one else was injured.
Law enforcement officials say the couple were working at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, and were headed home at the time incident.
Police say it appeared that it may have started on the train and then spilled out on the platform.
Sources told Eyewitness News that Stewart, who lives in a shelter in Brooklyn, has five prior unsealed arrests, mostly for assault and menacing, including one alleged assault that happened just last month.
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