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September 26, 2006

N.Y. papers cover dramatic capture of R.I. slay suspect

Four New York papers focus this morning on the dramatic crash yesterday morning on the Upper East Side of Manhattan by East Providence murder suspect Joel Noonan, who was shot by the police after crashing his getaway car.

Noonan is expected to survive and be brought back to Rhode Island, where he faces charges in the stabbing death of Steven Dowgiala of 15 Kenton Ave.

“The upper beast side: Bullets fly, lady flies as nutty ex-con is nabbed,” reads the lead headline on the New York Daily News Web site this morning. The paper describes Noonan as a “knife-wielding murder suspect” who was screaming, “You are not going to take me alive!” after crashing his Jeep Cherokee at 63rd St. and Lexington. The crash sent a 59-year-old pedestrian flying headfirst into a trash can, which then “acted as a lifesaving helmet when an SUV plowed the bin into a building,” the paper reports.

That woman is identified with various spellings in four New York papers. The New York Times reports that Eve Marie Boisbel, 59, was pinned between a Nissan Pathfinder and a storefront, lying partway in an overturned trash can. The Times reports that Noonan “began swinging a knife at two Metropolitan Transportation Authority police officers, who shot him twice after he ignored their orders to drop it.”

Newsday reports that Noonan came out of his Jeep “like a wild man,” after a crash that began “ as a case of aggressive driving, when Noonan cut off a Yellow Cab at Lexington and East 69th St.”

The New York papers report that Noonan was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital, where the New York Post says he was treated for “gunshot wounds to his leg and torso.”

-- projo.com staff writer Kate Bramson

Posted by Kate Bramson  at 8:40 AM | Permalink

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