2 NYPD Officers Dead In Brooklyn Shooting

The Huffington Post | By Andres Jauregui
Posted: 12/20/2014 5:11 pm EST Updated: 4 minutes ago


Two NYPD officers are dead after a gunman shot into a patrol car in Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon, police said.

The gunman was pursued by other officers and entered a subway station, where authorities said he then fatally shot himself in the head.

“The perp came out of the houses, walked up behind the car and lit them up,” a high-ranking police official told the Daily News.

The New York Post reports:
According to preliminary reports, both officers were working overtime as part of an anti-terrorism drill when they were shot point-blank by a single gunman who approached their car at the corner of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues.
The officers were rushed to Woodhull Hospital in critical condition. Both officers died after the shooting, according to multiple sources.

The shooting occurred in Bedford-Stuyvesant about a block away from the Myrtle/Willoughby G train subway station, a witness told the New York Daily News. After the shooting, officers pursued the suspect into the train station, witnesses said.

A witness who was on the first car of a Court Square-bound G train when police were on the scene told the Huffington Post that he saw "crowds of people lined up squatting against the wall" and "trying to hide behind benches" on the platform as his train pulled in.

"Everyone on the platform was on the ground." the witness, who wished to remain anonymous, told HuffPost. "A cop ran up to the conductor's window, slammed on it and told him not to open the train doors... the train kept rolling."

Crazy things happening at myrtle will station. G train not running. Tons of cops.
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