Too much drama? A 22-year-old police officer was killed and another seriously injured by bullets during an intervention Friday evening for violence in an apartment in the Harlem district, announced the police and the mayor of the city Eric Adams. The latter also called on the federal state for help in stopping the proliferation of firearms.
The tragic incident took place when three officers responded to a late afternoon call from a mother dealing with an abusive son at 135th Street in upper Manhattan, police said. When they arrived there, the 47-year-old man “suddenly opened fire on them”. “In an instant, the life of a young man of 22 years has stopped and that of another has been altered forever,” lamented the head of the New York Police Department (NYPD), Keechant Sewell, since the Harlem Hospital. According to several media, the suspect was also killed by return fire, which the authorities did not confirm during their press briefing.
