2024-01-16 23:23:06
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (WABC) — An investigation is underway after two NYPD officers were shot and injured in Brooklyn while responding to a domestic call on Tuesday afternoon.
Three NYPD officers and a police sergeant responded to a domestic call from a woman who reported being assaulted by her son inside Apartment 2B at 1969 Bergen Street in Crown Heights.
Officers quickly identified the suspect, a 39-year-old man, who had physically assaulted his mother, causing a head injury. When officers attempted to arrest him, the suspect resisted and a scuffle ensued.
Officials say that at some point the suspect got a hold of one of the officer’s guns and fired shots.
One officer was shot in the left hand, and another was shot in the left thigh. They were rushed to Kings County Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The suspect was shot multiple times and is in critical but stable condition.
One neighbor described the moment when she heard the shots ring out.
“It was two in the beginning and then there was four after,” said neighbor Nova Fuller. “Then an ambulance man came and started pushing me and my kid and telling us to run.”
She said she heard the suspect say “I’m not going back to jail,” before the shots were fired.
NYPD officials say the suspect has had a history of resisting arrest and domestic violence, with six prior arrests in New York City and one in North Carolina.
His last two arrests happened in 2023: one in February for domestic violence and violating an order of protection, and another January for third-degree assault and domestic violence.
His most serious arrest was in 2004 for attempted murder, for which the suspect spent 15 years in state prison.
No charges have been filed against the suspect so far.
Fuller said the whole incident has been traumatizing for her kids.
“My kids are crying because they’re seeing all the blood the glass,” Fuller said. They’re seeing the boy wrapped up. They are seeing too much. So now that’s traumatizing to my kids. Something really needs to be done here.”
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