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This kind of stuff reminds you of the tough job police officers do, and shows why politicians in the Big Apple want more gun control, since they can't seem to keep criminals locked up, or out of the USA in some cases, specifically the Guatemalan police stabber who was deported in 2005
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Dangers Continue: Auxiliary Cop Shot In Head
Gunfire Erupts Outside Popular Greenwich Village Bar
(CBS) NEW YORK CBS 2 has learned two auxiliary police officers were shot Wednesday night during an altercation with an armed man near the Lion's Den bar in Greenwich Village.
One officer was reportedly shot in the head. Both were taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, but their status is unknown at this time.
A plainclothes officer later killed the armed man, police said.
Witnesses said they heard shots being fired outside the popular bar Wednesday night. London tourist Darren McNamara said he heard two bursts, and thought it was someone shattering the front window of a shop. It turns out he heard gunfire.
Witnesses said suspects ran into the Lion's Den where someone was wounded inside and later removed on a stretcher. Others involved in the altercation ran out the back door.
Josh Drimmer was inside the bar at the time of the shooting.
"Hearing that many shots in a row," he said, "it was war. It felt like that for a hot second."
The Lion's Den is located on Sullivan Street and Bleecker on a block populated with bars and restaurants, not far from New York University.
Please stay with CBS 2 and wcbstv.com for more on this developing story.
Wednesday's violence follows two separate incidents on Tuesday night involving police officers. They were being treated at local hospitals Wednesday and were expected to make full recoveries, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
Angel Cruz, 30, a transit officer who suffered a pierced skull and a slashed face while serving a summons on a man on a subway platform, underwent surgery following the Tuesday night incident in Brooklyn. He was in critical but stable condition.
"He's in the ICU, and our prayers are with him," the mayor said while attending an unrelated event Wednesday morning. "Hopefully, he will come out of this fine, but nobody should think that he's out of the woods yet."
Cruz shot the suspect in the left elbow during the struggle, police said.
Also Tuesday night, a police officer was shot in the abdomen and ankle during a gunfight in a Harlem restaurant in which a 25-year-old man was shot dead.
Officer Robert Tejada, 35, was "going to be fine," the mayor said. "He's going to have a bullet in his ankle that he'll carry around for the rest of his life, but thank God it was nothing worse."
In the Brooklyn incident, the subway struggle began after Cruz tried to issue two men summonses for smoking in a restricted area. One man cooperated, but the other punched Cruz when the officer tried to frisk him for weapons, said Paul Browne, chief spokesman for the NYPD. Then, using a knife with a 6-inch blade, he slashed the left side of the officer's face before stabbing his left temple, Browne said.
Cruz fired five rounds. The suspect, 22-year-old Hugo Hernandez, was in stable condition with two shots to his elbow, Browne said. Hernandez has a record that includes assaults on police officers in New Jersey and was deported to Guatemala in 2005, he said. The second man who was being issued a summons fled.
A second officer who came to assist Cruz suffered an injured hand, police said.
Bloomberg said the incident was a reminder of "the kinds of risks that the men and women who work in our police department endure every day. They want to go home to their families."
Tejada, who was working under cover, was with three fellow officers when they responded to a 911 call at about 9:30 p.m. of a man with a gun at Cafe 22 in Harlem.
When the officers entered the restaurant, they attempted to arrest the man but a struggle ensued, said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. The suspect was able to pull a firearm and he shot at Tejada, grazing his abdomen and striking his ankle.
At least two officers returned fire, hitting the suspect at least four times, Kelly said. The 25-year-old man, who was not identified, was taken to Harlem Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Tejada was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital and was in stable condition.
Kelly said Tejada probably was saved from more serious injury by his bulletproof vest.
The mayor lamented the scourge of guns in the city's street at the same news conference.
"Illegal guns on the streets of our city are what are killing our children and can very well take the lives of our finest," Bloomberg said. "We just absolutely have to do something about this."
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_073215017.html
Dangers Continue: Auxiliary Cop Shot In Head
Gunfire Erupts Outside Popular Greenwich Village Bar
(CBS) NEW YORK CBS 2 has learned two auxiliary police officers were shot Wednesday night during an altercation with an armed man near the Lion's Den bar in Greenwich Village.
One officer was reportedly shot in the head. Both were taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, but their status is unknown at this time.
A plainclothes officer later killed the armed man, police said.
Witnesses said they heard shots being fired outside the popular bar Wednesday night. London tourist Darren McNamara said he heard two bursts, and thought it was someone shattering the front window of a shop. It turns out he heard gunfire.
Witnesses said suspects ran into the Lion's Den where someone was wounded inside and later removed on a stretcher. Others involved in the altercation ran out the back door.
Josh Drimmer was inside the bar at the time of the shooting.
"Hearing that many shots in a row," he said, "it was war. It felt like that for a hot second."
The Lion's Den is located on Sullivan Street and Bleecker on a block populated with bars and restaurants, not far from New York University.
Please stay with CBS 2 and wcbstv.com for more on this developing story.
Wednesday's violence follows two separate incidents on Tuesday night involving police officers. They were being treated at local hospitals Wednesday and were expected to make full recoveries, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
Angel Cruz, 30, a transit officer who suffered a pierced skull and a slashed face while serving a summons on a man on a subway platform, underwent surgery following the Tuesday night incident in Brooklyn. He was in critical but stable condition.
"He's in the ICU, and our prayers are with him," the mayor said while attending an unrelated event Wednesday morning. "Hopefully, he will come out of this fine, but nobody should think that he's out of the woods yet."
Cruz shot the suspect in the left elbow during the struggle, police said.
Also Tuesday night, a police officer was shot in the abdomen and ankle during a gunfight in a Harlem restaurant in which a 25-year-old man was shot dead.
Officer Robert Tejada, 35, was "going to be fine," the mayor said. "He's going to have a bullet in his ankle that he'll carry around for the rest of his life, but thank God it was nothing worse."
In the Brooklyn incident, the subway struggle began after Cruz tried to issue two men summonses for smoking in a restricted area. One man cooperated, but the other punched Cruz when the officer tried to frisk him for weapons, said Paul Browne, chief spokesman for the NYPD. Then, using a knife with a 6-inch blade, he slashed the left side of the officer's face before stabbing his left temple, Browne said.
Cruz fired five rounds. The suspect, 22-year-old Hugo Hernandez, was in stable condition with two shots to his elbow, Browne said. Hernandez has a record that includes assaults on police officers in New Jersey and was deported to Guatemala in 2005, he said. The second man who was being issued a summons fled.
A second officer who came to assist Cruz suffered an injured hand, police said.
Bloomberg said the incident was a reminder of "the kinds of risks that the men and women who work in our police department endure every day. They want to go home to their families."
Tejada, who was working under cover, was with three fellow officers when they responded to a 911 call at about 9:30 p.m. of a man with a gun at Cafe 22 in Harlem.
When the officers entered the restaurant, they attempted to arrest the man but a struggle ensued, said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. The suspect was able to pull a firearm and he shot at Tejada, grazing his abdomen and striking his ankle.
At least two officers returned fire, hitting the suspect at least four times, Kelly said. The 25-year-old man, who was not identified, was taken to Harlem Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Tejada was taken to New York-Presbyterian Hospital and was in stable condition.
Kelly said Tejada probably was saved from more serious injury by his bulletproof vest.
The mayor lamented the scourge of guns in the city's street at the same news conference.
"Illegal guns on the streets of our city are what are killing our children and can very well take the lives of our finest," Bloomberg said. "We just absolutely have to do something about this."
