NYPD detective shot in back in blazing gunfight with armed teen 10 days before retirement

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, flanked by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYPD First Deputy Commissioner Tania Kinsella, speaks at a press conference.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch, flanked by Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYPD First Deputy Commissioner Tania Kinsella, speaks during a press conference Sunday.Luiz C. Ribeiro for NY Post

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.

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