Two people are dead and a police officer was shot in the face this morning in Brownsville.<\/p>\n
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch says EMS was called to 1046 Thomas S. Boyland St. where they found a man had been shot. A shotgun shell was found in the vestibule of the building \u2013 leading officers to believe that the man was shot inside and had stumbled outside.<\/p>\n
The victim, Leroy Wallace, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Tisch says two officers at the scene secured the area \u2013 one staying with the body and the other inside the building. That\u2019s when she says a man opened a door of a first-floor apartment and shot an officer in the face with a bird-shot pellet.<\/p>\n
The officer returned fire, and the shooter retreated into the apartment and barricaded the door.<\/p>\n
Officer Sharjeel Worris, 25, was taken to Brookdale Hospital and is in stable condition, police say.<\/p>\n
ESU officers flew a drone into the shooter\u2019s first-floor apartment, where they found a man motionless on the ground with a shotgun next to him. ESU officers enter the apartment, and the man was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
Police have not yet released the name of the shooter.<\/p>\n
Officials say Worris, a four-year-veteran of the department who works out of the 73rd Precinct, is in good spirits.<\/p>\n
During the incident, Tisch said there was also a car collision involving two other responding officers. Those officers and another driver were all taken to Brookdale Hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are dead and a police officer was shot in the face this morning in Brownsville. NYPD…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-42712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}