(nydailynews)Two NYPD officers were shot in Brooklyn early Saturday by a suspect who slammed his car head-on into a patrol car as other cops...
(nydailynews)Two NYPD officers were shot in Brooklyn early Saturday by a suspect who slammed his car head-on into a patrol car as other cops were giving chase.
Jamal Funes, 34, opened fire on officers who converged on him after he pointed his gun at police and lead them on a chase, officials said.
One officer was struck in the chest, but the bullet didn’t penetrate thanks to his bullet-proof vest.
A second officer was hit in the lower back below the vest in the confrontation on Lexington Ave. near Malcolm X Blvd. in Bedford-Stuyvesant shortly after 3:00 a.m., officials said.
Both shot cops are plainclothes anticrime officers from the 81st Precinct. They were transported to Kings County Hospital in stable condition.
“Amazing to see the devotion of these officers and the relief their families felt,” Mayor de Blasio said at a press conference at the hospital Saturday morning after visiting both cops and their families.
“They were alert,” he said of the two cops, whose names were not immediately released. “They were talkative in fact.”
One of the shot cops, a nine-year veteran and father of two with a pregnant wife, had just made a gun arrest Friday, de Blasio said.
“He was telling me how proud he was,” the mayor said. “Just the day before he got another gun off the street.”
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said the father of one of the cops, now retired from the force, had once been shot on the job - and saved by his bullet-proof vest.
Funes, believed to be from New Jersey, was shot multiple times by police and taken to Brookdale University Hospital in critical condition.
The shooting unfolded after two police officers from the department's housing bureau response to a shot fired. When they approached Funes at Quincy St. and Malcolm X Blvd., he pointed a revolver at them and fled in a vehicle, Bratton said.
The housing cops drove after the suspect’s vehicle until he turned onto Lexington Ave., going the wrong way on the one way street.
Funes rammed a second police vehicle. Eight cops in three vehicles converged on Funes, including the two original housing cops, Bratton said.
The suspect opened fire from inside his vehicle, hitting the two officers. Multiple cops returned fire.
Funes’ .357 Magnum was recovered at the scene, Bratton said. It had five spent shell casings.
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