Car Chase - Breaking News Story

Three citizens were shot and killed Sunday evening by man named Pierre Jeantot.  Two of the three died on an elevated railway train between the 35th Street station and the 15th Street station and the other died outside an apartment building at 1767 W. 57^th Ave.  

A fourth citizen also died on the train from a heart attack after being threatened by Jeantot.  

Jeantot, 36, of Nice, France was also shot and killed at 4:08 p.m. on the steps to the platform of the 15th Street elevated railway station by New York City Police Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle.

The citizens killed include a pedestrian outside the 57th Avenue apartment, Betty B. Badluck, 63, of the Bronx; a cop killed on the train, Roland Evans, 34, of Brooklyn, who was a 15-year veteran of the New York City Police Department; and two trainmen, the conductor, Horatio C. Hornblower, 30, of White Plains, and Peter Howe, 27, of Queens who died of a heart attack at the controls. 

Doyle, in a hijacked car, had pursued Jeantot who was riding the elevated train from the 35^th Street station to the 15^th Street station to escape Doyle, until the train car crashed into another one due to Howe’s heart attack.  

The shooting rampage began at the 57th Avenue apartment building, in which Doyle resides. 

Olivia Marple, 20, a student, was in the park located outside Doyle’s apartment building when she heard gun shots being fired.

She hid behind a mailbox across the street from the building but looked out from behind it to see what was happening.

She first heard a shot and then saw Badluck, who had been walking her granddaughter in a stroller, fall to the ground.

Two woman ran over the Badluck, but Doyle, who had just passed Badluck when she was shot, yelled at them to run away. 

Jeantot was shooting the gun from the rooftop of Doyle's apartment, and seven to ten successive shot were fired in the next two minutes and as people ran away from the scene or tried to hide.  

Doyle hid behind a tree until he didn't hear any more shots being fired and ran along the building's facade for cover until he had reached the door and entered the building. 

Marple said she saw Jeantot leave his spot on top of the building before Doyle could reach him. 

Police Commissioner Ruth L. Ess said that Doyle then began to pursue Jeantot and had to hijack a car in order to follow the elevated railway train in which Jeantot had entered at the 35th Street station.

Student Charlie Weinmann, 20, also got on the train at that station and said while he was reading his newspaper he saw Jeantot walking briskly though the car he was sitting in. 

Then a police officer, later identified as Evans, followed after Jeantot, and Weinmann said Evans looked as if he was trying to stop Jeantot. 

In the car next to Weinmann's, Evans was shot by Jeantot, which caused everyone in that car to become frenzied.  

Weinmann then called the authorities to make them aware of the situation.  He saw Hornblower and a couple of others dressed in civilian attire walk through the train towards the commotion. 

Weinmann told Hornblower that he had just heard someone being shot. 

There was a lot of noise and confusion as passengers screamed in terror.  Then the train flew by the stop Weinmann had been hoping to get off at: the 27th Street station. 

All of a sudden he felt a big jolt and he fell off his seat.  The jolt was the train crashing into another one ahead of it.  According to Ess, before the train crashed, Jeantot had shot and killed Hornblower and had threatened Howe, leading to his heart attack at the controls. 

Jeantot escaped the train but made it only to the stairs of the 15th Street station before he was shot by Doyle.

Weinmann said he didn't see anyone seriously injured in his car and he helped some people up off the ground before the authorities arrived with medical assitance.  The authorities opened the doors to the train and Weinmann exited the train with the other passengers.

Ess suspects that Jeantot had been assigned to assassinate Doyle when he mistakenly shot Badluck from the roof of Doyle’s building above, an action which set off the following car chase and resulting deaths of three other citizens on the elevated railway. 

Doyle, who is assigned to the Narcotics Division, had been investigating a French drug kingpin prior to Sunday's tragedy, and Jeantot had been allegedly working on behalf of this kingpin.