2 wounded NYPD officers are identified

Authorities say two police officers have been shot and wounded by a gunman they encountered in the stairwell of a public housing project they were patrolling, and the gunman has killed himself.

These were the last words of the man who had gunned two cops in a Bronx stairwell Thursday night before closeting himself in his girlfriend’s apartment and killing himself.

One of the men pulled out a pulled out a sawed-off shotgun and fired three times at the police, hitting one cop in the midsection and another in the face before he ran up the stairs, cops said.

As Chavis opened the door to the seventh floor hallway, the official said, he turned and fired at the officers.

Officer Patrick Espeut, 29, was shot in the cheek. Both were taken to Lincoln Hospital.

During the search, the officers encountered two men in a sixth-floor stairwell.

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. When officers went inside, they found that person dead of what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, Tucker said. The other people in apartment are also being questioned.

“We did recover a 32 caliber gun inside the apartment while rendering aid to the perpetrator”.

Listen to the audio from the NYPD radio, courtesy of BROADCASTIFY.COM: The two officers, who are assigned to the Housing Bureau, were each on the force for two years. “Both two years on the job, but doing their job, going out there, keeping people safe, and running into some bad guys, but, thank God that first responders came to their aid”. In any case, despite everything we have two cops that were shot.

“Vertical patrols” require pairs of officers to sweep the stairwells of public housing projects with flashlights and service weapons, starting in the lobby, climbing the stairwells up to the roof and walking back down.

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

The Democratic mayor raced to the hospital after being told about the shooting when he finished his speech. He added: “Both officers have been alert and communicating”. “We need your support to teach your young folks that pulling a gun on a police officer works for no one”.

“This goes to demonstrate the threats cops confront every single day”. Officer Sherrod Stuart was shot in the lower leg by benevolent discharge amid a wild road fight squares away on January 9 and survived.

Officials say it happened near the Melrose Houses on East 156th Street, where there is a massive police presence.