VIDEO: A man attacked with a gun stolen three people during the celebrations of St. Patrick's Day in New York

During the festivities St. Patrick's Day a fight broke out in front of a bar in the middle of Manhattan, New York, where a man badaulted three people with a loaded and stolen weapon of the Virginia Police.

At the place located on the avenue Madison Near E.39, the incident occurred on the sidewalk, so a driver recorded the attack from his vehicle.

It happened around 19:40, when the man identified as being Thomas Hickey, apparently drunk, attacked three peopleincluding a 42-year-old woman who needed stitches to close her head injury.

The 37-year-old man, who lives in Brooklyn, has been charged with criminal possession of weapons, badault and possession of narcotics, according to the information published by the newspaper New York Post; He was taken to Bellevue Hospital because he was intoxicated.

A motorist recorded the incident with his mobile phone (Video: New York Post)

In the video recovered by the newspaper NY Post, It can be seen that the incident began when a man tried to prevent the attacker from entering the bar, from where he was expelled with d & # 39; 39, other people.

In the video, you hear someone say that the abuser hit a woman in the face, while the man who recorded everything describes the following. the man hit a man with the gun about eight times. "He left him stunned!", We hear.

The recording ends with the image of one of the victims on the floor, while one of his companions tries to revive him by asking him where he is still with. him.

In statements to the newspaper NY Post, one of the victims, a 41-year-old man, said that he did not remember in detail what had happened because everything was very traumatic. "I do not even know how it started, I found myself outside with the rest of the group and my friends were attacked. "

Thomas Hickey was carrying a weapon allegedly stolen from the police department of Chesapeake, Virginia. He recorded two more arrests, in 2003 and 1998.