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| New York police officer shot dead after 'exchange of gunfire' | New York police officer shot dead after 'exchange of gunfire' |
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| A police officer has died after being shot in the head while responding to a report of a man armed with a gun in Manhattan. | A police officer has died after being shot in the head while responding to a report of a man armed with a gun in Manhattan. |
| The officer, named by the New York police department as Randolph Holder, was fatally shot in east Harlem on Tuesday evening. | The officer, named by the New York police department as Randolph Holder, was fatally shot in east Harlem on Tuesday evening. |
| The police department said an exchange of gunfire had taken place: “Officers in east Harlem responded to shots fired. | The police department said an exchange of gunfire had taken place: “Officers in east Harlem responded to shots fired. |
| “Police officer Holder was fatally shot; a wounded suspect was apprehended four blocks away,” a statement from the department, posted on Twitter, said. | “Police officer Holder was fatally shot; a wounded suspect was apprehended four blocks away,” a statement from the department, posted on Twitter, said. |
| Holder, of Police Service Area 5, the housing bureau, in Manhattan, was reportedly pursuing a man on foot after a report that a bicycle had been stolen. | |
| Three men were taken into custody and are being questioned. A section of a busy parkway has been shut down near where the officer was shot. | |
| Police said 33-year-old Holder was the fourth police officer killed in the line of duty in New York city in the last 11 months. | |
| Police commissioner Bill Bratton said Holder was from Guyana, where his father and grandfather had both served as police officers. | |
| New York city mayor Bill de Blasio said the dead officer was “an immigrant who wanted to give back to his city and his country … who had an exemplary record”. | |
| He added: “We’re all in mourning tonight. This whole city is in mourning … We’re humbled by officer Randolph Holder’s example.” | |
| Bratton had earlier tweeted that he was at the hospital with the officer and asked New Yorkers to keep him in their prayers. |