NYPD Commissioner police killing: "They were quite simply assassinated"
- 9 years ago
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STORY: A gunman who had posted anti-police statements on social media ambushed two New York police officers as they sat in their squad car on Saturday and then killed himself, police said.
The officers were killed without warning in their marked police car as they were on duty in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Police Commissioner William Bratton told a news conference flanked by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
"They were quite simply assassinated," he said.
Bratton said the gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, took a shooter's stance on the passenger side of the squad car and opened fire with a silver semi-automatic handgun.
He then fled into a nearby subway station and died there from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Bratton said.
Brinsley had shot and seriously wounded his girlfriend in Baltimore County, Maryland, early on Saturday before traveling to Brooklyn, where he had connections, the police chief sai
STORY: A gunman who had posted anti-police statements on social media ambushed two New York police officers as they sat in their squad car on Saturday and then killed himself, police said.
The officers were killed without warning in their marked police car as they were on duty in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, Police Commissioner William Bratton told a news conference flanked by Mayor Bill de Blasio.
"They were quite simply assassinated," he said.
Bratton said the gunman, Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, took a shooter's stance on the passenger side of the squad car and opened fire with a silver semi-automatic handgun.
He then fled into a nearby subway station and died there from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, Bratton said.
Brinsley had shot and seriously wounded his girlfriend in Baltimore County, Maryland, early on Saturday before traveling to Brooklyn, where he had connections, the police chief sai