People v. Fernandez

OPINION OF THE COURT

Ross, J.

The predicate for the police activities during the late evening hours of August 3, 1979, and the early morning hours of August 4, was an anonymous call to the police emergency number — 911. The unidentified caller stated that a 5 foot, 10 inch tall, Hispanic male, with an Afro hairstyle wearing light blue pants and a light colored T-shirt, was observed at the intersection of 96th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, carrying a gun wrapped in a white shirt. The subsequent radio transmission to officers on the street relayed that there was a man with a gun at the aforesaid…