[Robert440]

An emergency medical technician in New York City was killed Thursday when she was struck and dragged by her own ambulance that had just been stolen, police said.

Police said the EMT had stopped her ambulance in the Bronx at about 7 p.m. after being alerted that a man was riding on the back bumper of her vehicle. Police had initially reported that a bystander flagged her down to report a robbery.

When she exited the vehicle to investigate, the man jumped inside as the EMT tried to stop him, police said.

The man put the ambulance into reverse, striking the EMT, who fell and got caught beneath the wheels, police said.

Video posted on Twitter by a bystander shows the ambulance speeding across an intersection with one of its doors open, its lights flashing and the body of one of the EMTs being dragged beneath the vehicle.

The ambulance then crashed into several parked cars and got stuck on a snowbank. A passing Metropolitan Transportation Authority K-9 officer subdued the 25-year-old suspect with the help of a bystander.

A second EMT was in the passenger seat of the ambulance as it was being stolen. She was being treated at a Bronx hospital for minor injuries, police said.

“I want to thank those good Samaritans who helped apprehend the perpetrator,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at the hospital. “A lot of heroism was on display amidst a great tragedy.”

[Yanni]

bitches screaming is always very helpful.

[Yanni]

ghetto people always call the ground/street/lawn "the floor".
the whole surface of the earth is a floor.

[Sephy]

Sucks we can't really see anything though.

[kellyhound]

Added pic and story
rip Yadira Arroyo.
Hope he gets life in prison

[gimlet]

Monkeytown

[laurenhayden1]

It was sad seeing her lying all alone and it looked like partially unclothed on the cold, hard, disgusting pavement. I hope she died on impact and didn't suffer lying there alone listening to her partner screaming like a banshee and cars honking to get past. Senseless death.

[Davis916]

Crushing injuries are still so difficult to treat. My prayers go out to her family, friends and coworkers. It is hell on earth working in a meat wagon in the Bronx area. Who in their right mind tries tries to steal a moving meat wagon? I hope that asshole does not make it out of Riker's, if you know what I mean!

[Cerebral222]

The idiot.

[WindsofWoe22]

Originally Posted by Cerebral222 ↗

The idiot.

Looks like he may have "fell down some stairs" during the arrest or something. Looks like he could be thrown down a couple more times as well