EAST FISHKILL – Three Amazon employees who work at the East Fishkill warehouse facility were taken into police custody Thursday evening after violence broke out at the Route 52 facility. Multiple police agencies responded to the facility after a report of a former employee who had entered the building, injured a male employee with a knife, and then fled the scene. The act of violence caused widespread fear and panic at the building, according to sources.
The incident occurred just after 7 p.m. on February 1.
The East Fishkill police department responded, assisted by other police agencies, and worked to secure the facility and search for the suspect who had been described as a “light-skin black male armed with a switchblade knife.”
Multiple EMS ambulances were summoned to the location after it was deemed secure by police. The EMS personnel treated several workers who sustained minor injuries during the “stampede” of workers trying to escape the reported violence. One employee is believed to have suffered a seizure and was transported to a local hospital for treatment.
The man who was originally reported to have sustained a knife wound to his hand was evaluated for what a source at the scene described as “a scratch to the hand that was no bigger than a wound from a fingernail.” The victim refused medical treatment.
The assailant was originally reported to be a former Amazon employee at the location. The initial police investigation, according to a source, says that the suspect is a current employee and is known to the victim. The source told Mid-Hudson News that two female employees who were taken into custody were responsible for bringing the assailant to the scene and then attempted to help him flee before police arrived. The two women were joined in police custody by the apprehended suspect.
The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact the East Fishkill Police Department at 845-221-2111.
