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Flatiron Shooting Suspect Turns Himself in to Police, NYPD Says

By Noah Hurowitz | November 24, 2015 1:22pm

FLATIRON — The suspected gunman behind the shooting of a woman in the Flatiron last week has turned himself in to the NYPD, officials said.

Charles Dunwoody, 37, of Corona, turned himself in at the 13th Precinct stationhouse at 6:40 p.m. on Nov. 18 to face charges of accidentally shooting a bystander, a police spokesman said Tuesday.

Police identified Dunwoody after catching him on surveillance video trading fire with another suspect in a shootout near Broadway and West 28th Street shortly before 2 a.m. on Nov. 17, according to police and a criminal complaint. 

A 21-year-old woman standing at West 28th Street and Sixth Avenue was caught in the crossfire and was shot in the calf, according to police and prosecutors.

Neither the woman nor another witness, a friend of the victim, saw where the gunfire came from, police said. Police initially said they were investigating reports of four men spotted fleeing the scene in a black SUV, but information about any additional arrests was not immediately available.

Dunwoody was arraigned Nov. 19 on charges of felony assault with a weapon and two felony charges of weapons possession, and a judge ordered him held on $50,000 bail, according to court records. His lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.

The Nov. 17 shooting and the fatal shooting a month earlier of a 26-year-old single mom outside a Flatiron club spurred calls for a community meeting on safety and crime in the Broadway corridor.

The meeting will take place on Tuesday  Nov. 24 at 6 p.m. at the NYC Seminar and Conference Center at 71 W. 23rd St. in Seminar Room C on the fifth floor.