Brooklyn Shootings Wound 1 NYPD Detective and 4 Children as 18-Year-Old Suspect Is Caught
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Updated · Fox News · Jul 5
Brooklyn Shootings Wound 1 NYPD Detective and 4 Children as 18-Year-Old Suspect Is Caught
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 5
Summary
Detective Robert Karroll was shot in the back of his ballistic vest around 4:14 a.m. in Crown Heights and is expected to make a full recovery; a second officer suffered facial and shoulder contusions.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said an armed 18-year-old approached officers sitting in an unmarked vehicle, triggering a fast-moving confrontation in which three officers fired, the suspect was not hit, and the police car took bullet damage.
Several blocks away near Rogers Avenue and Union Street, officers caught the suspect after a foot chase, used a Taser when he resisted arrest, and recovered a SAR 9mm handgun.
Hours earlier in Coney Island, at least 8 people were shot — including children ages 14, 12, 7 and 6 — with 7 victims stable and a 21-year-old woman in critical condition.
The officers had been reassigned under the NYPD's Fourth of July violence-reduction plan, and investigators are now seeking business surveillance footage because no body-camera video captured the shooting.