Two NYPD Officers Shot at by Armed Robbers
Two New York Police Department officials were shot at and wounded while responding to a robbery in progress at a commercial business in the Fordham section of the Bronx Monday night.
Police said that they were searching for one or two suspects involved in the shooting, early Tuesday. It is not clear if they were successful in apprehending the assailants. The shooting, which occurred at 10:30 p.m. local time, left the victims with nonlife-threatening injuries. The NYPD officers were in plain clothes when the incident took place.
Officer Andrew Dossi sustained injuries in the arm and back, while Officer Aliro Pellerano was shot in the arm and abdomen, New York Daily News reports. They were attacked at the corner of east 184th Street and Tiebout Avenue, which is just four blocks South of Fordham University and a little more than three blocks North of the NYPD's 46th Precinct.
The injured officials were rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where they are recuperating. An armed robbery was reported at the Welcome 2 Yemen deli on E. 180 Street. The officials confronted a stick-up man who is the prime suspect in the case.
The suspect fire shots at the officers, to which the NYPD officials responded by firing back hitting the suspect in the back. He allegedly fled in a stolen white Camaro which later crashed on E. 188th Street and Park Avenue. Police officials recovered a revolver that was hidden in a hat a block away.
It doesn't seem like the gunman had planned on shooting the officials. "This is something that they came upon," said Deputy Chief Kim Y. Royster, a police spokesperson, New York Magazine reports.
