Gunman arrested for threatening to open fire at NYC children’s hospital

Thomas Saxton, 34, was busted in his automobile outdoors Cohen Youngsters's Medical Heart in Glen Oaks round 12:10 p.m.
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An armed man was arrested for threatening to shoot up a youngsters’s hospital in Queens Thursday afternoon, sources stated.

Thomas Saxton, 34, was busted in his automobile outdoors Cohen Youngsters’s Medical Heart in Glen Oaks round 12:10 p.m., in keeping with legislation enforcement sources.

Saxton was in possession of two ghost weapons — unregistered selfmade weapons that lack serial numbers, the sources stated.

A search warrant for Saxton’s Lengthy Island house turned up a cache of weapons and ammunition together with a number of shotguns, greater than 1000 rounds, 4 assault rifles, a number of bullet-proof vests, over 50 magazines, and 9 different ghost weapons.

The suspect, who by no means entered the hospital, was going through menacing, legal weapons possession and drug expenses in reference to the hospital menace.

Saxton had a number of ghost handguns, bulletproof vests, 15 prolonged magazines and 1,000 rounds of ammunition in his automobile and at his house.

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Further expenses linked to the arsenal at his Nassau County house have been pending, sources stated.

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He by no means entered the hospital.

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New York Mets proprietor Steve Cohen has donated thousands and thousands to Cohen Youngsters’s Medical Heart.

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Further expenses linked to the arsenal at his Nassau County house have been pending, sources stated.

Cohen Youngsters’s Medical Heart was formally known as Schneider Youngsters’s Hospital Lengthy Island Jewish Medical Heart till 2010, when Mets proprietor Steve Cohen and his spouse made a $50 million endowment, Newsday reported.