NYPD Officers Shot, The 3rd And 4th Shot This Month

Fumes who has at least 15 prior arrests and an extensive rap sheet is fighting for his life at Brookdale Hospital after being shot at “numerous” times.

Two New York City police officers were shot in Brooklyn early Saturday morning.

Bratton said the confrontation started when two uniformed housing police officers – not Yurkiw and Reddin – heard gunfire near an intersection in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.

The two officers were taken to Kings County Hospital where they are being for injuries.

The suspect has been identified as 34-year-old Jamal Funes who police say lived in New Jersey. The suspect collided with a second police vehicle that held two officers and one lieutenant. Images released by police from surveillance video show the gunman – wearing an ankle-length, white garment – on a crosswalk taking aim and firing at the patrol auto at close range. Mayor de Blasio said in a statement that the officers “were alert”, although he declined to give their names. “Thank God they had some of the things they needed to keep them safe”.

De Blasio said one of the officers is a nine-year police veteran with two children and is expecting a third.

After the shootout, a. 357 magnum with five spent shell casings was reportedly found in the suspect’s vehicle. Both work a plain-clothes detail with the 81st Precinct’s anti-crime unit, Bratton added.

“The bullet did not penetrate his vest”, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said. He fled, but he didn’t make it far before smashing his vehicle into a patrol auto that had responded to the officers’ call for backup.

Last month, Officer Sherrod Stuart was wounded in the ankle in what police later determined was a friendly-fire shooting as another officer exchanged gunfire with a suspect in a Bronx street brawl.

A male suspect was shot multiple times and was also taken to the hospital.