Associated Press
NEW YORK — Police say a New York City officer was shot and wounded in Brooklyn by a gunman who later committed suicide.
Police Commissioner James O’Neill says two officers responded Thursday to a call about an emotionally disturbed 29-year-old man in an apartment in Brooklyn’s Cypress Hills. When the officers entered, the man opened fire, striking one in the right arm as he entered a bedroom. Two other shots hit his bulletproof vest. He did not return fire.
The 30-year-old officer was stable at Jamaica Hospital.
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The gunman barricaded himself in and held police at bay for hours, standing outside with their guns drawn.
When police stormed the apartment, they found him dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The commissioner said his mother had first called 911.
No IDs were immediately released.