Post by Big on Mar 14, 2007 23:28:28 GMT -5
An unarmed auxiliary police officer was shot and killed last night and another was wounded in a chase with a suspect on a busy stretch of bars and restaurants in the heart of Greenwich Village in Manhattan, the authorities said.
The suspect was then shot and killed by regular police officers who quickly responded to the scene around 9:30 p.m., they said. The episode began after the suspect, whose name was not immediately released, entered a pizzeria on Macdougal and West Houston Streets and shot the bartender, the authorities said. The two auxiliary officers — volunteers who dress in uniforms almost indistinguishable from regular police officers — followed the man toward Sullivan Street, where he turned and shot them, the authorities said.
Witnesses described a wild scene in which as many as 30 shots were fired and a highly populated stretch of the Village was swarmed with dozens of officers.
The shootings in Greenwich Village came just one night after two other police officers were attacked while on the job.
Those two clashes on Tuesday night were the bloody culmination of routine, if risky, police work: One officer was shot in a Harlem restaurant, and another was stabbed in the head in a Brooklyn subway station about 90 minutes later.
In each case, officers approached men they considered suspicious and tried to frisk them for weapons.
www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/nyregion/15cops.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
The suspect was then shot and killed by regular police officers who quickly responded to the scene around 9:30 p.m., they said. The episode began after the suspect, whose name was not immediately released, entered a pizzeria on Macdougal and West Houston Streets and shot the bartender, the authorities said. The two auxiliary officers — volunteers who dress in uniforms almost indistinguishable from regular police officers — followed the man toward Sullivan Street, where he turned and shot them, the authorities said.
Witnesses described a wild scene in which as many as 30 shots were fired and a highly populated stretch of the Village was swarmed with dozens of officers.
The shootings in Greenwich Village came just one night after two other police officers were attacked while on the job.
Those two clashes on Tuesday night were the bloody culmination of routine, if risky, police work: One officer was shot in a Harlem restaurant, and another was stabbed in the head in a Brooklyn subway station about 90 minutes later.
In each case, officers approached men they considered suspicious and tried to frisk them for weapons.
www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/nyregion/15cops.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
