NYPD Officers Shot in Bronx

Three Housing Authority officers were patrolling stairwells at the Melrose Houses in the Bronx when they ran into two men. Chavis allegedly opened fire at the officers before running to a seventh-floor apartment and turning the gun on himself, shouting that he just had just shot a cop and didn’t want to go back to jail, witnesses told police.

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… “I’m pleased to say both officers have been alert and communicating”, he told reporters.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was delivering his State of the City address a few miles away in the Bronx when the officers were shot and had highlighted dropping crime in the city.

“It’s another example of what our officers confront every single day, keeping us safe not only on the streets of New York City, but in the stairwells and the hallways of our public housing developments”, de Blasio said.

The suspect who was taken into in custody was also being treated at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, CBS2’s Tracee Carrasco reported. “We need your support to teach your young folks that pulling a gun on a police officer works for no one”.

Police said about an hour after the shooting that the officers’ conditions were “not life-threatening at this time”.

This item has been corrected to show the officer was shot in the abdomen, not an arm, according to new information police. “And of course our hearts and our prayers are with their families”, de Blasio said at a press conference at the hospital.

The other officer, a woman, was wounded in the torso and was in serious condition.

Espeut and Cruz encountered suspected gunman Malik Chavis, 23, in the sixth-floor stairwell at about 8 p.m., police said. She then saw the two officers being brought down to waiting ambulances.

PIX11’s Ayana Harry reports over 100 police officers are on the scene where the shooting occurred and many of them have entered the apartment building with sledge hammers, jackhammers and automatic weapons. A police officer is on trial for manslaughter in Brooklyn after shooting an unarmed man during a similar patrol in November 2014. 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.