(New York) A 22-year-old police officer was killed and another seriously injured by bullets during an intervention Friday evening for violence in an apartment in the Harlem neighborhood, announced the police and the city mayor Eric Adams .
Posted yesterday at 11:57 p.m.
The latter also called on the federal state for help in stopping the proliferation of firearms.
The tragic incident took place when three officers intervened at the end of the afternoon at the call of a mother confronted with an abusive son, at the level of 135and street in upper Manhattan, police said.
Arrived on the spot, the 47-year-old man “suddenly opened fire on them. In an instant, the life of a 22-year-old young man came to a halt and that of another was forever altered,” New York Police Department (NYPD) Chief Keechant Sewell said from the Harlem Hospital. According to several media, the suspect was also killed by return fire, which the authorities did not confirm during their press briefing.
This is the third time this week that a police officer has been shot in the city of nearly nine million people. In the two previous incidents, the lives of the police officers are not in danger.
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This is the third time this week that a police officer has been shot in the city
The Mayor of New York, Democrat, former police officer, in office since 1er January after being elected on crime-fighting promises, called on all forces in the city to unite to counter gun violence.
“We need Washington to join us and act now to stop the proliferation of weapons in New York,” he said.
“We are going to find these weapons and we are going to find those who bring them back and who use them,” he promised.
After seeing an increase in violent crimes during 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, crime figures stabilized on a slight increase in 2021 in the largest city in the United States.
But New York has been rocked in recent days by two new violent deaths.
On Saturday, Michelle Go, a 40-year-old American, member of the Asian community, died after being pushed onto a subway track by a homeless man with psychiatric disorders, as a train entered the busy station of Times Square.
The day before, a 19-year-old Puerto Rican, Kristal Bayron-Nieves, was shot dead by a robber at the checkout of a Burger King in the East Harlem district, still on the island of Manhattan.