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(Brooklyn, NY)-A Brooklyn man is seen in dramatic bodycam footage firing at two NYPD officers who responded to a call from the gunman’s roommate who called 9-1-1 while barricaded in a closet after being shot in both of his legs allegedly by his roommate.
Police showed a portion of the bodycam footage during a press conference Monday.
https://twitter.com/NYPDnews/status/1369018007100526594
Charges have also been announced against the suspect, 44-year-old Abdur Rashid Ridwaan of 42 Hawthrone St. Apt. 2L. He faces charges of Attempted Murder of a Police Officer, Attempted Murder, Criminal Possession of a Weapon, Unlawful Imprisonment.
The NYPD’s Chief Rodney Harrison describes an officer turning “in an instinctive fashion” as a bullet strikes the officer’s bulletproof vest in his body-worn camera magnet. A second officer is grazed by a bullet as the officers retreat down a stairwell opening fire. A total of 23 rounds of ammunition are fired. NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said, “number one there is no routine call, and number two police officers have split-second decisions to make life and death circumstances. We have seen this far too often lately.”
Watch as @NYPDShea and @NYPDDetectives update the media on last night's police involved shooting in the confines of the @NYPD71PCT. pic.twitter.com/bduOeZ3Zdt
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) March 8, 2021
Harrison said, “by the grace of God our heroic officers will be going home.” The officers were last reported in stable condition.
The lead officer thankfully bladed his body as the suspect shot at him, causing the bullet to strike his body camera and vest. pic.twitter.com/ze6lZ6SqBA
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) March 8, 2021
The man’s 45-year-old roommate is hospitalized at Brookdale Hospital, where he was last reported in stable condition.
An investigation is ongoing.
