A Bloods gang leader wanted on a federal warrant shot a firefighter during a tense standoff in Mariners Harbor, then started posting on Facebook, law enforcement sources told the Advance.
Tyree, who’s described by sources as the leader of the Bloods on the East Coast, barricaded himself inside a home at 15 Destiny Court, then set it ablaze, sources said.
He then shot a responding FDNY lieutenant in the ankle and hip, sources said.
Sources identified the suspect as Garland Tyree, 38.
“Today I die,” he wrote on Facebook just minutes after allegedly firing.
As concerned friends asked what was going on, Tyree responded, “They kicked in my door and it popped off.”
After the firefighter was hurt, the suspected shooter barricaded himself in the home. SWAT teams are trying to coax him out of a basement apartment, aerial footage shows.
A law enforcement source identified the suspect as Garland Tyree, an ex-con with an extensive criminal history, according to a search of New York prison records.
The page identifies him as a Staten Island resident who is the CEO and founder of Real Write Publishing.
Garland wrote on his website that he founded his company in 2006 after he discussed with a friend and mentor “the silliness contained in a lot of popular Urban Fiction and the vacuum that it left for the more gritty and talented writers to step in.”
Tyree said he penned his first novel, “The Trey Way,” in 2009. After spending more than 18 years away from Staten Island, he returned and formed Real Write Publishing, he wrote.


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