The gunman wanted for shooting three innocent bystanders near a Brooklyn hospital was aiming for a group of teens gathered for a fight with his girlfriend’s daughter, police said Thursday.
Allan Joseph, 52, was busted Wednesday night when officers ran the license plate on his Chevy Equinox because it was is a no-standing zone near Classon Ave. and Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights, police said.
The vehicle, it turns out, had been flagged in a database, meaning someone in the compact SUV had used it during the commission of a crime.
Joseph, who was in the driver’s seat, was busted for gun possession — of the same revolver police believe he fired last Friday afternoon, wounding three innocents near Marcus Garvey Blvd. and Broadway, near Woodhull Hospital.
Police investigate after three people were shot outside Woodhull Hospital on Marcus Garvey Blvd. and Broadway in Brooklyn, New York, on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (Gardiner Anderson / New York Daily News)
Those victims — a 33-year-old man struck in the thigh while waiting for a bus, a 16-year-old boy hit in the left hip and a 15-year-old girl grazed in the right foot — were in the wrong place at the wrong time, police said.
Joseph had driven there with his girlfriend after her worried 15-year-old daughter called her because the girl believed she was about to get attacked, police said. The daughter attends Williamsburg Charter High School, where she had earlier argued with a teen boy who threatened he was going to ask a girl he knows to fight the daughter, police said.
When Joseph and the mother arrived at the scene they rushed to the daughter’s aid.
Police investigate after three people were shot outside Woodhull Hospital on Marcus Garvey Blvd. and Broadway in Brooklyn, New York, on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (Gardiner Anderson / New York Daily News)
They argued for a while with a group of teens, including the girl who was supposed to fight the daughter, as well as that girl’s friends, all of whom were on the other side of the street, police said.
Cooler heads seemed to prevail, with Joseph, his girlfriend and her daughter getting into his vehicle to leave, police said.
But as they were leaving, police said, Joseph opened fire at the group, missing his targets entirely.
Police investigate after three people were shot outside Woodhull Hospital on Marcus Garvey Blvd. and Broadway in Brooklyn, New York, on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025. (Gardiner Anderson / New York Daily News)
Cops said Joseph, who lives in Sunset Park, was charged with attempted murder, assault and gun possession, plus resisting arrest.
He has eight prior arrests, including two for gun possession, one from 2019 and another in 1993, police said.