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According to authorities, a New York City cop was killed and another was seriously injured after being shot while responding to a domestic violence incident in Harlem.
Officers arrived on the scene to find a mother and her adult son arguing in a first-floor flat. At approximately 6:30 p.m., the mother met cops in front of the residence on West 135th Street. When they walked to a back room to speak with the son, gunfire rang out, injuring two of the three responding cops, according to authorities.
Police reported at a news briefing Friday night that the officer, whose identity was not revealed, was 22 years old and married. Late Friday, the second cop was still in serious condition.
According to authorities, the 47-year-old suspect, Lashawn McNeil, was then shot twice by the second officer.
The suspect has been apprehended. According to authorities, he was wounded once in the arm and once in the head and is in serious condition.
“I am at a loss for words to explain the horror we are experiencing,” NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell stated at a press conference. “We are both saddened and enraged. Our department is in trouble, and our city is in trouble. It is incomprehensible.”
McNeil “suddenly, without warning, opened fire on them,” said Sewell, who took over as commissioner with new Mayor Eric Adams last month.
The suspect had five prior arrests, including one for felony drugs possession in New York City in 2003. According to authorities, he was on probation at the time of the arrest. Outside of the city, he was arrested in 1998 for unauthorized possession of a firearm, in 2002 for assaulting a police officer, and in later years for two further drug offenses.
“It’s our city versus the killers,” Adams declared Friday night. “This was an attack on the city of New York, not simply three heroic cops. It is an attack on New York’s children and families. We will not win this struggle by splitting lives. We must all work together to rescue our city.”
According to authorities, the Glock pistol seized at the site of Friday’s incident was stolen in Baltimore in 2017.
