UPDATE: 3 men in custody in shooting of NYPD officers, source says By Shimon Prokupecz and Greg Botelho, CNN Updated 1:58 PM ET, Tue January 6, 2015 New York (CNN)Three men are in custody in connection with the shootings of two New York police officers -- including the suspected gunman, a law enforcement official said Tuesday. The alleged shooter has been identified, but his name has not been made public, the official added. The wounded officers spent Tuesday morning in the Bronxs St. Barnabas Hospital. One of them, 30-year-old Andrew Dossi, is in critical condition following surgery after being shot in the arm and lower back, according to police. The other, 38-year-old Aliro Pellerano, is in stable condition with gunshot wounds to the chest and arm. This is another indicator of the dangers our officers face in the line of duty, said New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has found himself at odds with some in his police force in recent weeks. Thank God, these officers will recover. Monday night, authorities located the white Camaro that two suspects carjacked a block from the shooting, as well as a revolver, but no one was inside the vehicle. A $12,000 reward was offered for information leading to the bearded man -- pictured in a surveillance video from inside a take-out Chinese restaurant moments before the shooting -- who, police say, shot at the officers. Extraordinarily brave The call about an armed robbery at a Bronx grocery store came in around 10:30 p.m. Monday, as five plainclothes officers were coming off their shift. The officers were off duty and heading home when they responded to the call. Rather than going home, the police went to look for the criminals -- something that de Blasio described as extraordinarily brave and ... part of their commitment. They spotted two men who were the suspected robbers, based on descriptions called in to police. Two officers approached one of the suspects on the street. The other went inside a Chinese restaurant. Surveillance video, released by police, shows him at the counter, speaking to a person behind a window. The man then abruptly turns around, pulls out a gun and charges out of the take-out establishment with it pointed forward. Police believe he was the lone shooter. Officers returned fire, with two of them shot in the exchange. Police Commissioner William Bratton said that one of the suspects may have been struck as well. Still, both managed to get away -- fleeing on foot for one block and then carjacking the Camaro. cnn/2015/01/05/us/new-york-officers-shot/
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 19:18:55 +0000
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