"A New York City police officer was shot and killed in an “unprovoked attack” as she was sitting in a marked police vehicle early Wednesday in the Bronx, authorities said.
Officer Miosotis Familia was inside the large vehicle — known as a mobile command post — with her partner at 12:30 a.m. when a gunman fired through a window and struck Familia in the head, police said. The city’s police commissioner called the shooting an assassination.
Familia, a 12-year NYPD veteran, was taken to a hospital in extremely critical condition, police said. Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill announced on Twitter several hours later that Familia had died. Familia’s partner was not wounded in the attack.
“Based on what we know right now, this was an unprovoked attack against police officers who work to keep this great city safe,” O’Neill said at a news conference early Wednesday."
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Now read up on the alleged assailant background:
Bonds’ criminal rap sheet includes a 2001 assault on a police officer with brass knuckles, a source said. He was arrested five other times, including drug possession and drug sales, sources said.
He was paroled in 2013 after serving seven years for a robbery in the Syracuse area, according to state records. Bonds, who the source said boasts up to six different aliases, recently spoke critically of law enforcement on Facebook. He said police in Oakland, Calif., were wrong to stop a child riding a bicycle.
Officer Miosotis Familia was inside the large vehicle — known as a mobile command post — with her partner at 12:30 a.m. when a gunman fired through a window and struck Familia in the head, police said. The city’s police commissioner called the shooting an assassination.
Familia, a 12-year NYPD veteran, was taken to a hospital in extremely critical condition, police said. Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill announced on Twitter several hours later that Familia had died. Familia’s partner was not wounded in the attack.
“Based on what we know right now, this was an unprovoked attack against police officers who work to keep this great city safe,” O’Neill said at a news conference early Wednesday."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...le-sitting-in-a-police-vehicle-officials-say/
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...-shot-bronx-suspect-custody-article-1.3301718
Now read up on the alleged assailant background:
Bonds’ criminal rap sheet includes a 2001 assault on a police officer with brass knuckles, a source said. He was arrested five other times, including drug possession and drug sales, sources said.
He was paroled in 2013 after serving seven years for a robbery in the Syracuse area, according to state records. Bonds, who the source said boasts up to six different aliases, recently spoke critically of law enforcement on Facebook. He said police in Oakland, Calif., were wrong to stop a child riding a bicycle.
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