HISTORICAL RADIO INFORMATION
Radio alert · North · Oct 19, 2026 · 1:20:55 AM EDT
This is a record of information heard over public radio, not a statement of what is happening now. Circumstances may have changed; no current outcome or status is inferred.
Units dispatched with lights and sirens to NW 7 Ave and NW 62 St for a reported aggravated assault/battery, felony (32F) — dispatcher advised it may possibly be a crisis intervention call (56). Caller reports about 20 Black males wearing all black and armed with guns are following him and trying to kill him. Caller is described as a Black male wearing a sweater, shirt, and blue jeans; he was reported standing in front of an MTA bus and not moving, and stated he was “holding the bus hostage.”
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