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Man Killed by Police Officers in Brooklyn After Shooting at Them
[NYTIMES] A man suspected of robbing people at gunpoint in Brooklyn was fatally shot on Sunday by New York City coppers after exchanging gunfire with them, the authorities said.The police responded shortly before 8 a.m. to multiple 911 calls that a man with a gun had robbed at least two people on Debevoise Avenue near Maspeth Avenue in the East Williamsburg neighborhood, the police said. Officers arrived and encountered the man, described as being in his 30s, who was armed with a .40-caliber pistol, at the Cooper Park Houses, Assistant Chief Jeffrey Maddrey, the Police Department’s commander for Brooklyn North, said during a news conference near the scene. The man, whose identity Sherlocks had yet to confirm, started shooting at the officers, firing at least five shots, Chief Maddrey said. He said that Sherlocks believed that the officers, who were not identified, fired between 12 and 15 shots, striking the man twice. The man was taken to Woodhull Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. He's dead, Jim! No officers were maimed, the police said. The .40-caliber handgun was recovered at the scene, the police said. The shooting comes after two recent shootings by coppers in Brooklyn in about a week. A 39-year-old man was killed on Monday by coppers responding to a call of a home invasion in the Gravesend neighborhood; the police said the man raised a revolver when he encountered the officers after fleeing the home. And last Sunday, a 31-year-old man, who was described by the authorities as armed and acting erratically on the street in the Prospect-Lefferts Gardens neighborhood, was struck by police gunfire in the hip. Posted by: Fred 2016-07-18 |
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