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Gunmen assault guards as prisoner left hospital appointment, flee in Corrections van
By ROB LAMBERTI, SUN MEDIA
Last Updated: 25th November 2009, 4:02am
Two gunmen staged a daring breakout of a prisoner pal by overpowering two prison guards at Hamilton General Hospital yesterday.
Police alerts were issued throughout the GTA following the 11:26 a.m. escape from the hospital at Victoria Ave. and Barton St. by Fawad Ahmed Nouri, 25.
The prisoner was leaving the hospital yesterday with two guards after a regularly scheduled visit.
Sgt. Terri-Lynn Collings said the guards were escorting Nouri out of the hospital when they were knocked to the ground by the two gunmen.
"It was when they were on their way out with him after the appointment when two suspects pushed them down," she said.
"He's got an appointment and I wouldn't think it would be coincidental they (the two gunmen) just happen to be there," Collings said.
The men wore surgical masks and pulled up their hoodies.
The three men -- with Nouri wearing a prison-issue orange jumpsuit, then fled in a Correctional Services van, hitting an ambulance while escaping.
The van was later found abandoned at Victoria and Birge St., about a block away. The men took off in a silver Tiburon.
The three apparently have a scanner capable of monitoring police calls.
Investigators are reviewing surveillance video from the hospital in a bid to identify the two gunmen, Collings said.
ARMED ROBBERY
Nouri had been shot in the arm by Hamilton Police in January following an armed robbery of a Tim Hortons on Stone Church Rd. and Upper James St.
Nouri and co-accused Todd Fenty, 26, are charged in the heist and a high-speed chase and gunbattle with police shortly after the coffee shop was robbed on Jan. 23.
Six years ago, Nouri was accused of pointing a sawed-off shotgun at a Toronto Police officer and reaching for her gun following an armed robbery at a flea market.
He was captured in that case following a wild high-speed pursuit near his home turf of River St.
ROB.LAMBERTI@SUNMEDIA.CA
Gunmen assault guards as prisoner left hospital appointment, flee in Corrections van
By ROB LAMBERTI, SUN MEDIA
Last Updated: 25th November 2009, 4:02am
Two gunmen staged a daring breakout of a prisoner pal by overpowering two prison guards at Hamilton General Hospital yesterday.
Police alerts were issued throughout the GTA following the 11:26 a.m. escape from the hospital at Victoria Ave. and Barton St. by Fawad Ahmed Nouri, 25.
The prisoner was leaving the hospital yesterday with two guards after a regularly scheduled visit.
Sgt. Terri-Lynn Collings said the guards were escorting Nouri out of the hospital when they were knocked to the ground by the two gunmen.
"It was when they were on their way out with him after the appointment when two suspects pushed them down," she said.
"He's got an appointment and I wouldn't think it would be coincidental they (the two gunmen) just happen to be there," Collings said.
The men wore surgical masks and pulled up their hoodies.
The three men -- with Nouri wearing a prison-issue orange jumpsuit, then fled in a Correctional Services van, hitting an ambulance while escaping.
The van was later found abandoned at Victoria and Birge St., about a block away. The men took off in a silver Tiburon.
The three apparently have a scanner capable of monitoring police calls.
Investigators are reviewing surveillance video from the hospital in a bid to identify the two gunmen, Collings said.
ARMED ROBBERY
Nouri had been shot in the arm by Hamilton Police in January following an armed robbery of a Tim Hortons on Stone Church Rd. and Upper James St.
Nouri and co-accused Todd Fenty, 26, are charged in the heist and a high-speed chase and gunbattle with police shortly after the coffee shop was robbed on Jan. 23.
Six years ago, Nouri was accused of pointing a sawed-off shotgun at a Toronto Police officer and reaching for her gun following an armed robbery at a flea market.
He was captured in that case following a wild high-speed pursuit near his home turf of River St.
ROB.LAMBERTI@SUNMEDIA.CA