Photo released of suspect in summer shooting of COVID nurse in Brooklyn park
Cops on Monday released surveillance photos of a suspect in the summer shooting of a COVID nurse in a Brooklyn park.
Carey Thame, who spent months as nurse on the front lines of the COVID pandemic, has been recovering since Aug. 30 from a gunshot wound he suffered in August inside Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Two newly released photos show the suspected shooter inside a subway station.
Thame, 29, was shot as he and a friend were spontaneously dancing with a couple of women they had just met.
Thame said their dance was interrupted by two men who approached them from behind.
One of the men punched Thane in the face but he didn’t go down. A short time later, one of the attackers pulled out a gun and shot Thane in the abdomen.
The two women took off with the men and they all jumped into a cab together. There have been no arrests.
Thame, an intensive-care nurse who lives in Orlando but grew up in Queens, was taking an evening walk with friends through the park when he was shot.
In an exclusive front-page interview with the Daily News earlier this month, he struggled with the irony of finding himself in intensive care after the shooting.
“I didn’t expect any of that to happen, the fact that I sat there with a tube in my mouth, after what I have been doing for the last few years,” Thame said. “There’s no feeling like it, being in that situation.”
A surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital where he was treated told Thame how lucky he was to have survived.
The bullet that struck Thame passed through his arm and landed in his abdomen. Luckily, one of the friends he was with had medical training and was able to control the bleeding until first responders arrived.
Thame spent 2020 and 2021 traveling to COVID-19 hotspots across the country, including Elmhurst Hospital in Queens, one of the hardest-hit locations in the country.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
