2 wounded NYPD officers are identified

Months before he was wounded in a shootout in the stairwell in a Bronx public housing development, Housing Police Officer Patrick Espeut filmed an emotional video of the posthumous homecoming of an NYPD comrade killed in Afghanistan. His partner Diara Cruz was hit in the torso below her bulletproof vest and underwent surgery. Officials said the officers, both two year veterans, are in stable condition.

Two New York Police Department officers who were shot in the Bronx on Thursday night are in good condition while the suspected shooter is dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said. The lodging cops, alongside another officer, were directing a normal vertical watch at the Melrose Houses on E. 156th St. close Courtlandt Ave. when they went up against two men savoring lager a stairwell and requested recognizable proof, cops said. They were patrolling along with another officer when they found two people, one of whom opened fire, Deputy First Commissioner Benjamin Tucker said at a news conference.

The suspect, identified as Malik Chavis, 23, fled into an apartment on the seventh floor.

Police say the officers encountered two people in a stairwell Thursday night when one of them pulled a gun and opened fire.

At the point when police entered the flat, the tenants indicated a back room, where they discovered Chavis dead from a self-delivered shot injury, powers said.

The other person who had been in the stairwell at the time of the shooting was taken into custody, and police were questioning several others who were in the apartment where the gunman was found.

The New York State Air National Guard identified one of the injured police officers as Patrick Espeut.

A police officer is on trial for manslaughter in Brooklyn after shooting an unarmed man during a similar patrol in November 2014.

Lynch said he was relieved “we’re not getting the worst news“.

“It’s another example of what our officers confront with every single day”. Police would not provide the names of the officers or the suspect.

“This shows the complex nature in which we work”.

Police said Chavis had 11 previous arrests dating back to 2007 including for drug possession, robbery, grand larceny and criminal trespass. Rookie officer Peter Liang had his gun drawn in a pitch-black stairwell at the Louis Pink Houses in Brooklyn when he accidentally fired a shot.