Wounded NYPD officer leaves hospital

A New York City police officer shot Thursday night in the Bronx when he and his female partner encountered armed suspects in an apartment complex hallway has been identified as a resident of Brewster. According to the police, three officers were in the 6th floor stairwell conducting a routine patrol when they encountered Chavis and another man.

Responding officers found the suspect dead in an apartment where a.32-caliber pistol and a shotgun were recovered.

Police say the man who shot them later killed himself.

According to NY Daily News, 24-year-old, Cruz, was hit below her bulletproof vest in the torso.

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

Lynch said he was relieved “we’re not getting the worst news”.

“Our hearts and our prayers are with their families”, said de Blasio, who was giving his State of the City speech at Lehman College about five blocks away. NYPD chief of detectives Robert Boyce (right) listens.

The New York State Air National Guard identified one of the injured police officers as Patrick Espeut. The officers are appointed to Police Service Area 7 and have been at work for a long time, as per First Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Tucker.

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. “This goes to show the dangers police officers face each and every day”. Akai Gurley was on a lower floor walking to the lobby and was struck and killed. This demonstrates the perplexing nature in which we work.

Police officers walk near the site where two police officers were shot at the Melrose Houses in the Bronx section of New York, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016.

In January, a police officer responding to a large street fight in the Bronx was shot in an ankle. The man’s head was wrapped, while the woman was on a stretcher, she told the Wall Street Journal. Both officers were admitted to Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx with what a NYPD spokeswoman described as “non-life threatening injuries”.