1 of 2 NYPD officers shot in the Bronx leaves hospital

Two on-duty police officers were shot in Melrose around 8 p.m. Thursday, police have confirmed.

The officers were on patrol a staircase inside the Melrose Houses when they “encountered armed suspects and were shot”, the NYPD said.

De Blasio was delivering his State of the City speech about 5 miles away when the shooting happened. One of individuals pulled out a gun and started shooting before fleeing into an apartment on the seventh floor.

One of the officers shot while patrolling a NY public housing complex will be released from the hospital.

Chavis ran into the apartment and barricaded himself, saying he had just shot a cop and didn’t want to go back to jail, witnesses told police.

Both officers have been on the force for two years and are expected to survive their injuries.

A weeklong search for a Missouri couple wanted in a series of robberies and abductions across the South ended with one suspect dead and the other wounded Friday, after authorities say they chased the pair across the… Several other people were inside the apartment, where police recovered a semi-automatic firearm and a shotgun. “Both officers have been alert and communicating”.

Colonel Timothy LaBarge, commander of the 105th Airlift Wing, called the Putnam cop ” profoundly professional airman at the 105th Airlift Wing so it does not surprise us at all that he conducted himself with courage and distinction in his duties with the NYPD.

Police said Chavis had 11 previous arrests dating back to 2007 including for drug possession, robbery, grand larceny and criminal trespass.

“We need your support to teach our young folks that pulling a gun on a police officer works for no one”, he said.

Officer Diara Cruz, 24, who has two years on the job, was seriously injured after a bullet pierced her abdomen below her bulletproof vest, hitting internal organs, the law enforcement official said.

Apparently, fellow officers have testified in similar housing complex shootings that the beat is often “dangerous”.

During testimony in the ongoing Brooklyn manslaughter trial of rookie Officer Peter Liang – accused in the fatal 2014 shooting of a man in a darkened stairwell of the Louis H. Pink houses – Det.

The housing development is located in the 40th Precinct, where Officer Sherrod Stuart was shot in the ankle by friendly fire during a shootout on January 9. And in October, a police officer responding to a report of shots fired and a bicycle stolen at gunpoint in Manhattan’s East Harlem neighborhood was killed.