Off-duty NYC cop fatally shoots man after traffic dispute

Authorities are investigating a Brooklyn road rage altercation that resulted in an off-duty police officer killing the other driver.

The off-duty officer was driving a 2002 Nissan Altima on Atlantic Avenue when he was involved in a traffic dispute with another motorist who was driving a 2016 Kia, police said.

Eric Soufer, a spokesman for New York Attorney General Eric Scheniderman, said prosecutors had obtained a search warrant for the officer’s vehicle and were “actively reviewing the case”.

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Small’s family held a news conference later Monday demanding a full investigation.

When the officer and Small stopped at a red light, Small got out of his vehicle and punched the officer repeatedly in the head through an open window, according to police.

Ali Dempsey told NBC that his brother was in Brooklyn visiting his girlfriend, their child and her two teenagers.

The officer fired his weapon an unknown number of times during the assault, police said, and Dempsey suffered a gunshot wound.

Police walk along the crime scene after an off-duty officer shot and killed a man at Atlantic Ave. and Bradford St.in East New York.. “Delron was unarmed. His wife and kids were still in the auto”, Lloyd Banks told the New York Daily News.

The unidentified cop, who was not in uniform, was taken to Jamaica Hospital, where he was treated for multiple facial injuries, the sources said.

He pleaded with police after arriving at the roped-off crime scene to identify the shooting victim, fearing it was his brother.

‘He just shot him right there on the street.