Negro East Coast head of the Bloods gang 38-year-old Garland Tyree dead after shooting firefighter, setting house ablaze

Family claimed Garland Tyree was just about to turn his life around... he planned on going to Sally Struthers' International Correspondence School for typewriter and adding machine repairs

The East Coast head of the Bloods gang — who wounded a firefighter after torching his own Staten Island house Friday morning during a confrontation with US marshals — is dead after a gunfight with cops, law enforcement sources said.

The gunman, 38-year-old Garland Tyree, had come out of his home shooting again at officers around 11:45 a.m., and authorities responded with gunfire and tear gas.

Tyree, who went by the nickname “Murder,” was fatally shot by an Emergency Services Unit cop in the exchange, the sources added.

His distraught family was at the scene.

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