A 22-year-old NYPD police officer was killed and another was injured in a Harlem shooting on Friday night.
said at a late night news conference. "This was an attack on the city of New York."
The officers were shot near West 135th Street and Malcolm X Boulevard. They were rushed to Harlem Hospital, which is just steps away from the shooting scene. A 47-year-old suspect was also shot, police said. FOX 5 News reported that the suspect was killed in the confrontation. A call had come in shortly after 5 p.m. of a mother needing help with her son. Three officers responded to the ground-floor apartment on 135th Street. Police say the call made no reference to weapons being involved.New York City Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell speaks at Harlem Hospital after 1 NYPD officer was killed and another was critically injured in a police-involved shooting in Harlem on Friday evening.
They spoke to the mother in a front room, and then two officers went down a narrow hall to a back bedroom where the son was. They say he opened the door and started shooting."It is time for us to save our city," Adams said.The President of the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York, Patrick Lynch, addresses the media after two police officers responding to a domestic violence call were shot, one fatally, in a Harlem apartment Friday night.
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