Video circulating on social media is believed to show the shootout between an NYPD officer and a suspect in Washington Heights.
The incident was reported near West 187th Street and Wadsworth Avenue around 4:30 p.m. Thursday according to ABC7.
Police say two plain-clothes officers from the 34th Precinct responded to the area after reports of shots fired. They chased a man who had a gun in his hand into a nearby parking lot.
The suspect went behind a parked car and then fired three shots at one of the officers. The 34-year-old officer was struck in the right arm.
“At the same time this is happening, the officer’s partner, also a 34 Precinct Anti-Crime officer, drives his unmarked police car into the parking lot,” said NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill. “He gets out and takes a position in front of the car. One bullet fired by the suspect goes past this officer and through the windshield of the police car. This second officer then fires three rounds at the suspect.”
The suspect was struck in the chest and pronounced dead at the hospital.
The officer, a 5 year veteran, was taken to St. Luke’s Hospital with a non-life-threatening injury and was listed in stable condition.
