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Uniformed police officer sitting in NYPD van shot in the Bronx
By Rocco Parascandola and Thomas Tracy
New York Daily News |
Feb 08, 2020
A police officer was shot in the Bronx on Saturday night, authorities said. The incident happened around 8:30 p.m. near E. 163rd St. and Baretto St., just west of the Bruckner Expressway in Longwood.
A police officer was shot in the Bronx on Saturday night, authorities said. The incident happened around 8:30 p.m. near E. 163rd St. and Baretto St., just west of the Bruckner Expressway in Longwood. (Colter Hettich/New York Daily News)
A uniformed police officer sitting in a marked police van was shot in the Bronx on Saturday night, authorities said.
The incident happened around 8:30 p.m. at 906 Simpson St., near E. 163rd St. and Baretto St., just west of the Bruckner Expressway in Longwood.
A man walked up to a marked police van and asked one of the officers inside a question, said a police source.
Then the man pulled out a gun and fired, the source said.
The wounded officer was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where he was reported conscious and alert, the sources said. A second officer in the van was not hurt.
Police were reportedly seeking a black male suspect who was wearing a black jacket.
Several blocks around the shooting scene were cordoned off as police investigated.