The NY Daily News reports that a Brooklyn cop was clinging to life early Sunday after he was dragged for more than two blocks by the driver of a stolen car, officials and police sources said.
A spokesman for Mayor de Blasio said the mayor met with the family of 35-year-old Officer Dalsh Veve at Kings Country Hospital around 3 a.m.
Veve, a nine-year NYPD veteran, was rushed to Kings County Hospital in critical condition, officials said. He lives in North Baldin, L.I., and has a 2-year-old daughter.
“I ask all New Yorkers to keep Officer Veve in their thoughts and prayers as we go into the day and wish him all the best,” NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said.
The mayhem began when six plainclothes officers responded to a report of shots fired at Tilden Ave. and 53rd St. in East Flatbush at 11:50 p.m. Saturday, according to NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill. Cops quickly determined that the 911 callers had actually heard fireworks.
Veve was speaking with occupants of a black Honda sedan parked at a fire hydrant at the scene when the driver hit the gas and dragged Veve west on Tilden Ave. The car had recently been reported stolen in Valley Stream, L.I.
The cop was dragged for two-and-a-half blocks before the sedan made a right on 53rd St. and he finally fell free. Veve opened fire twice while being dragged, police said.
The car only made it another block before it crashed and the people inside ran off.
The suspects in the car were later captured and were being interviewed at the time of this writing.