The suspect’s gun has been recovered, sources told The Post. A picture of the alleged weapon used, a SAR 9mm handgun recovered from the scene, was shared by the NYPD on X.
The officers had been reassigned to Brooklyn shortly after midnight as part of a stepped-up patrol for the NYPD’s July 4th violence reduction plan. They had been working the Sail4th 250 event in Lower Manhattan on Saturday.
Both of the wounded cops were with a sex-offender monitoring unit.
They were injured in violence that occurred nine years to the day that NYPD Officer Miosotis Familia by a nut career criminal while sitting in her patrol car in The Bronx.
