The alleged killer of officer Jason Rivera, the 22-year-old Hispanic police officer who dreamed of being a police officer to put a smile on the faces of the people he helped, had an extensive criminal history.
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The Daily Mail reported that, prior to that crime, McNeil was well known to officers, who were last called to the house by a domestic violence call in August.
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McNeil had previously been arrested in New York in 2003 on narcotics charges and was on probation.
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He also had four other arrests in two different states.
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In 1998, he was arrested in South Carolina for illegal possession of a weapon.
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In Pennsylvania, where his registered address was, in Allentown, he was arrested in 2002 for assaulting a police officer.
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He was also arrested twice in Pennsylvania in 2003, once for a felony narcotics offense and once for a misdemeanor narcotics offense.
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I had an illegal gun at home
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When the three officers arrived at McNeil’s home, the mother was in a front room with another son. She said her son was in the back room, so Rivera and Mora approached the room down a 30-foot narrow hallway. There they were surprised by a shooting for which McNeil used an illegal Glock with a 40-round magazine.
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The battery charger that McNeil had fitted to his Glock allows you to hold an additional 40 rounds at 10 he already has the gun, giving the shooter a total of 50 rounds to fire.
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New York prohibits the use of magazines with more than 10 rounds.
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McNeil’s mother, Nadine McNeil, former prison officer who worked in the Bronx, had called the police alleging that her 47-year-old son was threatening her.
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McNeil was shot and wounded by a third officer after he tried to flee the house. On Friday night, he underwent surgery.
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The shooting is the first police death under Mayor Eric Adams, a former NYPD officer, and the fourth and fifth since he took office on Jan. 1, and the first shooting of an NYPD officer since July 2017.
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Adams on Friday night declared: ‘It’s our city against murderers. This is not just an attack on three brave officers. This was an attack on New York City’
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