Suspended EMT Died in Brawl Over Parking Spot
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:08 am(July 20) -- The New York City emergency medical technician who allegedly ignored a pregnant woman's pleas for help last year was fighting with three men over a parking spot when he was fatally shot outside a nightclub this week, according to reports.
Police told the New York Post that Jason Green, 32, had gained the upper hand in a fistfight with three men outside the New York club Greenhouse when a fourth man opened fire, shooting Green twice in the torso.
EMT Jason Green
Anthony DelMundo, NY Daily News / AP
Jason Green, 32, was fatally shot after getting into a fistfight outside a New York City nightclub, police said.
Citing officials, the paper said Green was "standing over one of his assailants and punching him when a friend of the man he was pummeling opened fire."
The dispute was believed to have been over a parking spot, the New York Daily News reported.
Green and his girlfriend, fellow medic Melisa Jackson, 23, were suspended for a month without pay following the Dec. 9 death of Au Bon Pain cashier Eutisha Rennix. Green and Jackson allegedly refused to help the pregnant Rennix, who had suffered an asthma attack, saying they were on a break. The case remains under investigation.
Jackson is now mourning Green's death, according to the Post.
"Melisa is completely destroyed by this," a colleague told the newspaper. "She's not handling it too well."
Three suspects are being questioned in Green's death. The altercation between Green and the men was captured in a cell phone video, according to the Post, which said the blurry quality of the recording does not show the suspects' faces.
Police told the New York Post that Jason Green, 32, had gained the upper hand in a fistfight with three men outside the New York club Greenhouse when a fourth man opened fire, shooting Green twice in the torso.
EMT Jason Green
Anthony DelMundo, NY Daily News / AP
Jason Green, 32, was fatally shot after getting into a fistfight outside a New York City nightclub, police said.
Citing officials, the paper said Green was "standing over one of his assailants and punching him when a friend of the man he was pummeling opened fire."
The dispute was believed to have been over a parking spot, the New York Daily News reported.
Green and his girlfriend, fellow medic Melisa Jackson, 23, were suspended for a month without pay following the Dec. 9 death of Au Bon Pain cashier Eutisha Rennix. Green and Jackson allegedly refused to help the pregnant Rennix, who had suffered an asthma attack, saying they were on a break. The case remains under investigation.
Jackson is now mourning Green's death, according to the Post.
"Melisa is completely destroyed by this," a colleague told the newspaper. "She's not handling it too well."
Three suspects are being questioned in Green's death. The altercation between Green and the men was captured in a cell phone video, according to the Post, which said the blurry quality of the recording does not show the suspects' faces.
