An investigator at the scene where two police officers were fatally shot in Brooklyn on Saturday. Credit John Minchillo/Associated Press
Suspect is found dead
Dec. 20, 2014 (New York Times) -- In an apparent ambush, two police officers were fatally shot in their patrol car in Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon by a man who had shot his girlfriend earlier that day in Baltimore, law enforcement officials said. The man then fled to a nearby subway station and fatally shot himself in the head.
The shootings come at a time when the city is roiled by demonstrations after a grand jury decided not to indict an officer in the chokehold death of a Staten Island man.
The fatal ambush on Saturday took place near Myrtle and Tompkins Avenues in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.
“It looks like they were shot in the upper body,” Deputy Chief Kim Royster said.
Chief Royster said the man opened fire on the officers, ran up Myrtle and went into a subway station. The man later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, she said. The police had recovered a gun from the scene.
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