Post by Logan on Feb 5, 2016 2:11:30 GMT -6
Two police officers patrolling a housing project were shot and wounded by a gunman who apparently later killed himself with the same weapon a few miles from where Mayor Bill de Blasio was delivering his State of the City address on Thursday.
The officers were on the sixth floor of an apartment building in the Melrose Houses complex in the Bronx when they encountered two people in a stairwell, police said. One of the people pulled a gun and opened fire, and both officers were struck, one in the face and the other in the abdomen, police said.
The gunman fled into an apartment on the seventh floor, New York Police Department First Deputy Commissioner Ben Tucker said.
Officers responding to the scene found the gunman in the apartment dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. A handgun and a shotgun were found inside the apartment, police said.
Read more: www.courant.com/nation-world/ct-new-york-police-officers-shot-20160204-story.html
The officers were on the sixth floor of an apartment building in the Melrose Houses complex in the Bronx when they encountered two people in a stairwell, police said. One of the people pulled a gun and opened fire, and both officers were struck, one in the face and the other in the abdomen, police said.
The gunman fled into an apartment on the seventh floor, New York Police Department First Deputy Commissioner Ben Tucker said.
Officers responding to the scene found the gunman in the apartment dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. A handgun and a shotgun were found inside the apartment, police said.
Read more: www.courant.com/nation-world/ct-new-york-police-officers-shot-20160204-story.html