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Two New York City police officers responding to a robbery in the Bronx were shot and wounded Monday night, and a manhunt was under way for at least two suspects, authorities said. A manhunt was under way Tuesday for at least two suspects who shot and wounded two New York City police officers responding to a robbery in the Bronx. Both officers were listed in stable condition.
The officers were taken to a Bronx hospital with non-life threatening injuries. One officer was wounded in the arm, and the other was struck in the back, police said. Police say one of the suspects may have been wounded in the gunfire. They were trying to determine whether a man who later walked into a hospital with a gunshot wound to his back was connected to the incident.
Deputy Chief Kim Royster, commanding officer of the public affairs unit, said the officers were not targeted by the gunman – unlike two officers shot to death about two weeks ago in their patrol car in Brooklyn – but had just come upon the scene. The shooting occurred at about 10.30 p.m. Monday near East 184th Street in the Tremont section. The officers were coming off their shift when they and three other plainclothes officers responded to a report of a grocery store robbery.
Royster said a weapon was recovered but it was not clear whether it belonged to the suspects. The shooting happened just after 10.30pm on Monday. Police said the officers may have been fired on by an assailant from a car after a car stop went awry, but the incident was still being investigated. “They went above and beyond the call to protect their fellow New Yorkers. Thank God the officers are doing well and will recover,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at the hospital where the officers are recovering.
Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were gunned down in their patrol car on 20 December by a man who vowed online to kill “pigs”. The man opened fire, then ran into a subway where he shot himself dead. Ramos was buried on 27 December, Liu was buried on Sunday. Thousands of officers from around the country attended the funerals. The shooting came about two weeks after two officers were fatally shot while sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn, and on the same day that the city touted record low crime levels.
Monday night’s shooting unfolded as officers were searching for suspects for an armed robbery that occurred minutes earlier at a grocery store.
Police commissioner William Bratton said the officers, part of an anti-crime unit, were in a car when they spotted two possible suspects in the robbery — one outside a Chinese restaurant and another inside it.
He said when the officers got out, the suspect in the restaurant opened fire, forcing the officers to shoot back. The two suspects fled and then carjacked a white Camaro, which was later found abandoned. A revolver was recovered nearby.
The commissioner said police are reviewing video that they hope will help them identify the suspects.
The organization Cop Shot, Citizens Outraged at Police Being Shot, has offered a $10,000 reward leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspects.
The two officers were not identified. They were described as a 30-year-old who was shot in his left arm and lower back, and a 38-year-old hit in his left arm and chest.
On December 20, Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were gunned down in their patrol car by a man who vowed online to kill “pigs.” The man opened fire, then ran into a subway where he shot himself to death.
Ramos was buried December 27; Liu was buried Sunday. Tens of thousands of officers from around the country attended the funerals. Many turned their backs as de Blasio spoke because some say he is anti-police.