Shotgun Blast to Face Injures NYPD Officer at Murder Scene Standoff
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NYPD officers found a 41-year-old man fatally shot in the chest in Brownsville around 5:57 a.m., and the suspected gunman later opened fire at police.
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An NYPD officer suffered facial injuries that weren't considered life-threatening facial injuries from a shotgun blast and was rushed to the hospital.
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The armed suspect barricaded himself for nearly three hours before the standoff ended, and multiple people, including a handcuffed woman, were removed from the building.
A cop responding to a Brooklyn murder was wounded in the face when the suspect fired a shotgun during a standoff with police early Monday, NYPD sources said.
Police responding to a 5:57 a.m. 911 call for a shooting found a 41-year-old man dead near Hegeman Ave. and Thomas S. Boyland St. from a gunshot wound to the chest. The victim’s name was not immediately released.
At some point, the suspect opened fire on cops. It wasn’t immediately clear if the officer was struck by a direct blast of pellets from the shotgun or hit by fragments, possibly from a ricochet.
The officer was taken to Brookdale University Hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening, sources said.
The gunman was holed up inside a building for nearly three hours before the standoff ended about 8:45 a.m.
Several people were brought out of the building by cops after the standoff, including a woman in handcuffs.
With Theodore Parisienne
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