Two police officers shot while on patrol in a NY housing project had stopped to question a group of people before getting into an exchange of gunfire.
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Police say three officers were on the sixth floor when they encountered two people.
The officers were walking with Chavis to a seventh floor apartment, where Chavis said he had his identification, according to the official.
Asked for ID, Chavis said his was upstairs – but as they reached the top floor, he wheeled around and fired three shots, hitting both officers.
When responding officers entered the building, they found the gunman dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
He was made aware of the shooting after he finished his speech and rushed to the hospital. Three other individuals who were in the loft were additionally being addressed, police said.
Espeut was rolled out in a wheelchair through an emergency room door at the back of the hospital as hundreds of cops from across The Bronx lined up for the 29-year-old cop.
Mayor Bill de Blasio visited the wounded officers at the hospital and praised their police work: “Our courageous officers were doing their jobs in a public housing patrol keeping residents safe”, he told reporters.
He had?17 prior arrests, according to the law enforcement official.
Others were not as receptive to the outpouring of support for his loss, with one person writing on a relative’s Facebook page: “Is that the ***** that was killed because he shot two cops?”
The NYPD officer who was shot in a New York City stairwell Thursday night was released from the hospital Friday.
Police said about an hour after the shooting that the officers’ conditions were “not life-threatening at this time”. He called his father and said he loved him, kissed his girlfriend and went into the bedroom and shot himself. “Both officers are alert and communicating, and we are praying for the best here”.
Sources told the NY Times that the officers shot back, one of them once and the other twice, although this information was not confirmed by the NYPD.
Both officers have been on the force for two years.
“This goes to demonstrate the threats cops confront every single day”.
A police officer is on trial for manslaughter in Brooklyn after shooting an unarmed man during a similar patrol in November 2014. He said the shooting shows the difficulty and danger of vertical patrols.
One of the men in the stairwell fired at the officers and fled to an apartment of an acquaintance. Prosecutors say Liang was reckless and shouldn’t have had his finger on the gun’s trigger. Officer Sherrod Stuart was shot in the lower leg by benevolent discharge amid a wild road fight squares away on January 9 and survived.
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Police say the man who shot them later killed himself.
