wickedflea | (no subject)

This happened right around the corner from the press today. Our intern was coming back from running an errand and saw all the commotion. Gotta love Newhavenburg.

(New Haven) - A manhunt for a man threatening to shoot people on the New Haven Green came to a dramatic end today.

Police had been looking for a U-Haul van believed to be driven by Andrew Leone.

Leone had threatened to start randomly shooting on the crowded in New Haven Green if police didn't release his girlfriend, Julia McKnight, from jail.

Eyewitness News crews spotted the van just as it reached the New Haven Green. It was then that Leone got out of his van and went after one of the crews.

He displayed a gun and attempted to take Eyewitness News reporter Pei Sze Cheng and photographer Chuck Calahan hostage. Calahan was able to wrestle the gun away from Leone and throw it to Cheng. Once in possession of the weapon, Cheng threw it out of the car.

The loss of the gun, however, did not deter the assailant. He proceeded to beat Calahan barehanded until police arrived and subdued him.

Cheng says, "He was relentless! He didn't give up, he tried to beat up Chuck."

Neither Cheng or Calahan suffered any injuries.

video at http://www.wfsb.com/Global/story.asp?S=2168596&nav=1VGmPoxn