NEW YORK — Two deputy U.S. marshals were shot, and a man wanted by Massachusetts authorities was killed, early Friday morning in the Bronx, according to the U.S. Marshals Office.


What You Need To Know

  • Andre Sterling, 35, was wanted for shooting and injuring a Massachusetts state trooper

  • Two deputy U.S. marshals were shot while trying to arrest Sterling

  • The deputies were expected to be ok. Sterling died in the shootout

  • Police arrested a man at the scene. He may be charged with harboring a fugitive.

The incident occurred around 5:30 a.m. near Ely and Edenwald Avenues in a residential area of Wakefield, two doors down from Israel Quiones. Crazy, chaotic, and too close for comfort was how Quiones described the gunfire that echoed across the normally quiet Bronx neighborhood of single-family homes.

“All I heard was gunfire and it woke me up out of my bed, so I got up, looked through the window, I saw the cops running back and forth,” Quiones said. “When I saw that, I closed the curtains. I didn’t want anything to happen to my family.”

The marshals had come looking for a man wanted for a shooting in Massachusetts.

“It was kind of concerning because we walk by there every day to drop off our oldest daughter  to school,” said neighbor Stephanie Rivera. “We never thought anything of that house.”

Part of the aftermath was captured on surveillance video. The deputy U.S. marshals were shot. One was hit in the arm and leg, and the other in the leg. The video captured the tense moments when officers carried one of the injured marshals to a car to get him to Jacobi Medical Center.

The suspect, 35-year-old Andre Sterling, was also shot and died from his injuries. Police said Sterling shot first inside the house and the marshals fired back.

Sterling was wanted in the November 20 shooting of a Massachusetts state trooper on Cape Cod. The trooper survived.

Police arrested a man at the shooting scene who was also injured. He may be charged with harboring a fugitive.

“I’m shocked to know that something like this happens in this area,” said Bronx resident Anjai Sharan. “Since I live here, nothing like this happened.”

An NYPD officer also was hurt when he fell while carrying one of the wounded deputy marshals. The officer and the marshals were expected to be ok.

A firearm was recovered at the scene, according to sources. An investigation was ongoing to determine if that .9mm handgun was the same weapon used in the Massachusetts shooting.

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NY1 earlier reported that no NYPD officers were involved, but the story has been updated as more information has become available.

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