FBI agent ambushed in Canarsie remembers trying to save himself
"My world got small and I just started firing."
The FBI agent shot in the back in Canarsie while FaceTiming his wife in late 2018 was visibly upset on the stand Thursday as he recalled firing his gun at Ronell Watson, the man accused of ambushing and shooting him in a broad-daylight attack.
One day after he testified about being shot in the back during an undercover surveillance job, Special Agent Christopher Harper was back on the stand, as Watson’s defense attorney, Federal Defender lawyer Michelle Gelernt, grilled him about the shooting.
“I remember him being next to the driver’s side of the BMW. I just remember seeing his head and torso. My world got really small, and I just started firing at him,” Harper testified Thursday.
Watson is on trial before Judge William F. Kuntz for the attempted murder of a federal agent for the December 2018 shootout. On Thursday, Harper recalled seeing Watson drive his BMW M5 the wrong way down one-way Canarsie Road.