{"id":42729,"date":"2025-11-17T19:36:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/42729\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T19:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T19:36:26","slug":"nypd-cop-shot-wounded-in-face-by-gunman-who-just-murdered-neighbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/42729\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD cop shot, wounded in face by gunman who just murdered neighbor"},"content":{"rendered":"

An NYPD cop was shot and wounded in the face early Monday by a gunman who had just murdered a Brooklyn neighbor,<\/a> police said<\/p>\n

Officers responding to a 5:57 a.m. 911 found 41-year-old Leroy Wallace dead from a gunshot wound to the chest on the sidewalk near Hegeman Ave. and Thomas S. Boyland St. in Brownsville, cops said. Wallace was shot inside his apartment building and then stumbled outside and collapsed.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice released an image of a shutgun at the scene where a police officer was shot and wounded in Brooklyn on Monday. (NYPD)<\/p>\n

About two hours later, Officer Sharjeel Waris, 25, was guarding a shell casing marked as evidence in the building\u2019s vestibule when the killer suddenly opened his first-floor apartment door and fired a shotgun at close range at the four-year NYPD veteran, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.<\/p>\n

Waris was shot in the left side of his face. His birdshot pellet wound was minor and he was released from Brookdale University Hospital about noon, wheeled out in a wheelchair to cheers from fellow officers, with his family by his side.<\/p>\n

\"AnAn NYPD officer responding to a murder was wounded in the face when the suspect fired a shotgun before eventually killing himself near Hegeman Ave. and Thomas S. Boyland St. in Brooklyn on Monday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

He is good spirits,\u201d Tisch said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut make no mistake, this could have ended very differently. What happened this morning is a reminder of how quickly danger finds the men and women who protect this city. They stood their ground, they did their jobs and they kept people safe. And once again they reminded us all what it means to put on that uniform.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NYPDNYPD Officer Sharjeel Waris was shot in the left side of his face. His birdshot pellet wound was minor and he was released from Brookdale University Hospital about noon, wheeled out in a wheelchair to cheers from fellow officers, with his family by his side. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Cops had earlier knocked on the gunman\u2019s door and nobody answered, leading them to believe he was not home and had fled the scene.<\/p>\n

Waris returned fire, hitting the gunman, who retreated back into his apartment and locked the door, officials said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been briefed on the NYPD officer who was shot in Brooklyn this morning,\u201d Mayor Adams tweeted from Israel, where he is in the middle of a visit. \u201cPraying for the officer\u2019s recovery and we will continue to monitor the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AnPolice responding to a 5:57 a.m. 911 found a 41-year-old man dead from a gunshot wound to the chest on the sidewalk near Hegeman Ave. and Thomas S. Boyland St. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Adams\u2019 top deputy, First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro,<\/a> visited the wounded cop and his family at Brookdale University Hospital before the officer\u2019s release.<\/p>\n

\u201cFortunately, he is doing well,\u201d Mastro told reporters. \u201cHe has a loving and supportive family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Waris took the test to become an NYPD cop when he was just 19 and joined the force at age 21, Patrick Hendry, president of the Police Benevolent Association union said. \u201cA job that he always wanted to do and he loves doing it and he\u2019s going to continue to do it and do it well,\u201d Hendry said.<\/p>\n

\"AnSeveral people were brought out of the building by cops after the standoff. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Cops were not sure if the gunman had been struck in the shootout with Waris. They eventually broke a window to his apartment and sent a drone into the home, which transmitted video showing the gunman dead on the kitchen floor, his shotgun by his side.<\/p>\n

While investigators first suspected he had killed himself, there were no shell casings found in the apartment and so police concluded he was killed by the shot fired by a wounded Waris.<\/p>\n

Several people were brought out of the building by cops after the gunman was found dead, including a woman in handcuffs.<\/p>\n

\"AnAn NYPD officer responding to a murder was wounded in the face when the suspect fired a shotgun before eventually killing himself near Hegeman Ave. and Thomas S. Boyland St. in Brooklyn on Monday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Wallace, who had no criminal history according to police sources, lived in the apartment adjacent to his killer\u2019s home. The two-story brick building has just four apartments, two on each floor.<\/p>\n

The building\u2019s super said there were no sigs of trouble between the gunman and Wallace before the shock slaying.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if there was anything going on between them,\u201d said the super, John Bell. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen them argue \u2026 It\u2019s a shock \u2026 It\u2019s terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AnAn NYPD officer responding to a murder was wounded in the face when the suspect fired a shotgun before eventually killing himself near Hegeman Ave. and Thomas S. Boyland St. in Brooklyn on Monday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The super said the gunman lived with his sister, moving in a few months ago after leaving his job with the Army. Two months ago, the gunman complained about a problem with the water and the super fixed it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was polite \u2026 He seems like a quiet person,\u201d the super said of the gunman. \u201cIf there was a problem, he would call me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two officers racing to the scene got into a crash on New Lots Ave., Tisch said. They were taken to Brookdale University Hospital, along with the driver of the other vehicle. All three victims were in stable condition.<\/p>\n

With Theodore Parisienne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NYPD cop was shot and wounded in the face early Monday by a gunman who had just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-42729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42729","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=42729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}