The mom of a Staten Island EMT who was shot in his ambulance by a deranged drunk railed about her son’s shut name — saying it was “the worst telephone name a mother might get.”
“How does my son get SHOT doing his job attempting to assist folks?” Kathy Rowan McMahon, the mom of wounded EMT Richard McMahon, posted on Fb Thursday.
“The worst telephone name a Mother might get,” she wrote. “Fortunately he’ll be okay!!”
She added that her son “has the largest coronary heart and compassion for his job and sufferers!!”
Rowan McMahon informed one commenter that her son “fortunately twisted his shoulder n that’s the place the bullet hit.”
Richard McMahon, 25, an EMT with Richmond College Medical Middle, was dispatched on a name of a disorderly patron at Funkey Monkey Lounge on Forest Avenue round 7:40 p.m. Wednesday, in keeping with police.
“I by no means noticed the man earlier than,” the bar’s proprietor informed The Publish, however requested that his title not be used. “My bartender informed me she gave him three Jamesons [Irish Whiskey]. That’s it. He had three drinks and left.”
Cops then acquired a 911 name about an unruly patron outdoors the watering gap, and an ambulance was dispatched, police stated.
The unruly patron, recognized by cops as Thomas “Tommy” McCauley, 37, was being transported to the hospital when police stated he allegedly pulled out a .38-caliber revolver and fired.
Regardless of being wounded, McMahon wrestled the gun from the shooter — who was nabbed after a retired NYPD detective and an off-duty sanitation lieutenant grabbed him.
Richard McMahon Sr., the EMT’s dad, stated his son was telling the disorderly affected person he would get “all of the show you how to want” when he pulled out the handgun and opened fireplace.
“Fortunately the bullet went straight by means of, no fragments,” the elder McMahon informed The Publish Thursday. “My son reached out and grabbed the gun away from him and was in a position to take it away and throw the gun out the again.
“I don’t know the way he acquired the power to take it away from him after being shot,” the 66-year-old proud father stated. “God will need to have helped him however he took it out along with his palms and opened the again doorways and threw it out the doorways.”
He stated that’s when his son yelled for assist and the 2 good Samaritans got here to his help, tackling the gunman and holding him for cops, the dad stated.
“Thank God they had been there to assist,” the daddy added.
Police stated McCauley additionally had a knife and pepper spray on him.
The youthful McMahon is because of be launched from the hospital in a while Thursday.
McCauley is being held on the a hundred and twentieth Precinct stationhouse and is predicted to be transported to court docket for arraignment later within the day.
NYPD Inspector Mark Molinari stated at a press briefing Wednesday that McCauley was recognized to cops as a result of a previous name for an emotionally disturbed particular person.
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