STATEN ISLAND — An ex-con who robbed a woman at gunpoint triggered a manhunt Wednesday after he fled from parole officers, police said.
Giovanni Donegan, 20, and Isaiaha Black, 18, approached a 21-year-old woman in front of 155 Norway Ave. in Arrochar and one pulled out a gun at about 10:45 p.m., the NYPD said.
They demanded property from the victim and took her purse with her cellphone, credit card and $100 in cash inside, police said.
Black was arrested on Tuesday and charged with robbery and criminal possession of stolen property, authorities said.
But Donegan sparked a manhunt Wednesday in Tompkinsville after he fled from a parole office on Bay Street when police tried to arrest him, the Staten Island Advance reported.
He was making a regularly scheduled report to the 146 Bay St. office when he pushed past parole officers trying to arrest him and fled, according to the state Department of Corrections.
Several parole officers and an Institution Safety Officer were treated and released from Richmond University Medical Center after the incident, the Department of Corrections said.
He had not been arrested as of Thursday, police said.
Donegan was arrested in 2011 when he was 15 and charged with attempted murder after he shot a person in the face and another in the leg in Port Richmond, according to police and the Advance.
He spent nearly three years in jail for the crime and has been out on parole since July, according to state records.
On Sept. 3, Donegan was arrested again for drinking alcohol in a motor vehicle, a spokeswoman for the NYPD said.
Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
