UPDATE, 11:56 PM: The wounded officer is reportedly expected to recover.
UPDATE, 11:37 PM: Mayor Bill de Blasio said that shooting the NYPD plainclothes officer was “unconscionable” at a hospital presserUPDATE, 11:00 PM: We present the latest update without comment.
“The pants were too low, he couldn’t run with them,” said the father, who has lived at the house 10 years. “He was walking fast, he was pushing the gun down into his pants.”
UPDATE, 10:34 PM: The suspect served a jail sentence for attempted murder,according to the New York Daily News — and was released after seven years, only to shoot a cop seven years later.
Blackwell served seven years in prison on attempted murder charges. He was released from the Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate Dannemora in June 2008.Blackwell was wanted for committing an unknown crime in November 2014. No other details were immediately available.
UPDATE, 10:29 PM: Time Warner Cable NY1 reports that the suspect opened fire when police approached him on suspicion of possessing a gun:
A man has been arrested in connection with a shooting of an NYPD officer in Queens Saturday afternoon.Police say the shooting happened near the intersection of 104 Road and 212 Street in the Queens Village neighborhood around 6:15 p.m. Saturday.Investigators say plainclothes anticrime officers noticed a man with a bend in his waistband, indicating that he may possibly have a handgun on him. When they approached him, police say the suspect opened fire and at least two bullets hit an unmarked vehicle.One of the officers suffered injuries to his right cheek and back of the head. He was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in critical but stable condition.
UPDATE, 10:27 PM: Commissioner Bratton identified injured officer as Brian Moore, 25, who is still in surgery.
UPDATE, 10:22 PM: Mayor de Blasio has yet to make an appearance.
UPDATE, 9:59 PM: CNN covers Baltimore riots; one popular headline reads, “Look at trees in a different way.” The officer’s shooting is buried beneath a sob-story on Muslim terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. “It’s like he isn’t there,” breathes the female reporter in the courtroom
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