A New York City police detective and four children were among those wounded in separate Brooklyn shootings over a violent Fourth of July holiday weekend.
Incident Details
New York Police Department Detective Robert Karroll of the Sex Offender Monitoring Unit was shot in the back of his ballistic vest during an encounter with an armed 18-year-old in Crown Heights early Sunday morning, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed at a news conference hours later.
Karroll was taken to Kings County Hospital and is expected to make a full recovery. A second officer suffered contusions to the face and shoulder during the incident.
Detectives’ Endowment Association President Scott Munro denounced the spate of violence, stating, ‘This has to stop.’ He expressed relief that ‘we’re not planning a funeral today.’
The shooting came hours after four children were injured in Coney Island, where at least eight people were shot. The victims included two men, two women, and four children, ages 14, 12, 7, and 6. All were taken to hospitals, with seven listed in stable condition and a 21-year-old woman in critical condition.
Response and Investigation
Tisch said officers assigned to a mobile field force detail were parked in an unmarked police vehicle near Nostrand Avenue and St. Johns Place around 4:14 a.m. ET when a person approached the car. The shooting happened ‘quickly and unexpectedly,’ she said.
After a foot chase, the suspect was apprehended several blocks away near Rogers Avenue and Union Street. Tisch said he resisted arrest and refused to be handcuffed before officers deployed a taser and took him into custody. A SAR 9mm firearm was recovered.
Investigators were canvassing nearby businesses for surveillance footage because there was no body-camera video of the shooting itself.
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