[4] An ambulance arrived on the scene within minutes of the shooting and Dorismond was transported to St. Clare's Hospital where attempts to resuscitate him proved futile.

The single bullet from Vasquez's 9mm pistol had struck Dorismond's aorta and his right lung, and he rapidly bled to death.

Much of the controversy over the Dorismond shooting revolved around then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was then in the midst of an abortive United States Senate campaign.

[7] Dorismond's funeral, a Catholic Mass in Brooklyn, was a highly emotional affair marred by clashes between thousands of protestors and the NYPD.

[8] On July 27, 2000, a grand jury declined to indict Officer Vasquez in the death of Dorismond, announcing that they had found the shooting to be accidental.

[10] Immortal Technique commented on the incident in the song "The Other White Meat": Cops don't stop and search us, cause they think we a threat They making money for the prison industrial complex Extorting hookers for sex and then arresting them And murdering people of color instead of protecting them You killed Patrick Dorismond and then disrespected him Now most cops disagree with the shit that I spit, But I got 41 reasons to tell you to suck a dick Dorismond is the first name mentioned in the recitation "Rollcall for Those Absent", from the album The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint (Blue Note, 2014) by jazz trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire.