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Posted by: kwflatbed

(WBZ) JAMAICA PLAIN A handicapped van driver is receiving treatment at a local hospital after he was found slumped over the vehicle's steering wheel suffering from a gunshot wound in Jamaica Plain.

The 20-year-old victim was shot in the right shoulder sometime Monday afternoon. Witnesses found the victim in a Fallon Ambulance Service van at the corner of Center and Chestnut Streets. Officials say they are still trying to determine where the shooting actually occurred.

WBZ's T.J. Winick spoke with a Fallon official, who said the victim has not been working for the company long, and is not an EMT.

Police say they are now looking for a suspect who is described as a Puerto Rican male wearing a black hood.

The driver is in stable condition at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

http://wbztv.com/topstories/local_story_099170409.html

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Posted by: USMCMP5811

Victim honks for help after being shot in Jamaica Plain


JAMAICA PLAIN, Mass. -- A wheelchair van driver was hit by gunfire in the chest.
Witnesses said the driver of a Fallon chair coach stopped at Centre Street and Chestnut Avenue in Jamaica Plain and began honking after being shot a short distance away.

He was taken to Brigham and Women's Hospital and is expected to be OK.

There reportedly were no passengers in the van at the time of the shooting.

Police are now searching for a suspect.


http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO48522/

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Posted by: Sniper

"(WBZ) JAMAICA PLAIN A handicapped van driver is receiving treatment at a local hospital "

Val, along I thought you were the only handicapped driver that Fallon employed !!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAAAA

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Posted by: kwflatbed

Chair van driver gunned down in JP
By Jessica Van Sack
Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - Updated: 01:23 AM EST



A young boy looks at the scene of yesterday’s shooting at the intersection of Chestnut Avenue and Centre Street. (Staff photo by Mark Garfinkel)


A 20-year-old employee of Fallon Ambulance Service had just dropped off a wheelchair-boundclient when a brazen gunman shot the driver in Jamaica Plain yesterday afternoon, police and Fallon officials said.

A law enforcement source told the Herald that police were looking for a 6-foot-tall Hispanic male wearing a black hoodie.
The description was provided to police at the scene by the “dazed” victim, who was in good condition last night at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and who is expected to recover. He was not identified by authorities.
According to the law enforcement source, as first responders were tending to the bloodied Fallon worker, the driver told police that a gun-toting man charged into his van and attempted to rob him at gunpoint. The source said the victim told police the shooter accessed the van through a window. He said police weren’t sure of the story, adding that the victim was probably suffering from shock.
The van driver was shot in the right shoulder at about 4:30 p.m., after which he drove himself to the nearby intersection of Centre Street and Chestnut Avenue, police and witnesses at the scene said. He summoned help by repeatedly sounding the van’s horn.
“He was just going beep, beep, beep,”’ said Victor Rodriguez, 44.
Alexis Torres, 31, said the man was pleading for help as witnesses from a nearby convenience store got to him and called 911.
Boston police Superintendent John Gallagher said police aren’t sure exactly where the shooting occurred, and they need any witnesses to call Boston police. Police cordoned off the area around the residential Chestnut Avenue side street for an hour before searching and then towing the van at 5:30 p.m.
Fallon Ambulance Field Supervisor Chris Grazioso said the victim was new to the company and had “just minutes earlier” dropped off a client of the Fallon Chair Coach, a service that transports the wheelchair-bound, and was either on his way to another client or about to take a break. The victim was alone at the time of the shooting, Grazioso said.

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRe...ticleid=193856

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