NYC Police Shooting

Source: www.chron.com --- 105 days ago
NEW YORK — Police are questioning a man they believe accidentally shot a woman with an arrow on a New York City street. The New York Police Department's chief spokesman, Paul Browne, says investigators came across the 27-year-old man around 4 p.m. Thursday. They were canvassing the area in the Bronx where the woman was hit in the stomach Sunday. ...

Source: www.kristv.com --- 105 days ago
Associated Press - March 19, 2009 11:03 PM ET NEW YORK (AP) - Police have arrested a man they say accidentally shot a woman with an arrow on a Bronx street. ...

Source: yourblackattorneys.blogspot.com --- 34 days ago
Life was looking good for Omar Edwards up to the point of encountering a man rummaging through his vehicle in Manhattan's East Harlem neighborhood on the night of May 28. A month prior the 25-year-old Police rookie had married the mother of his children, 1 1/2-year-old Xavier and 7-month-old Keanua. Wearing street clothes, he had just gotten off work at a job he had wanted to do since he was a child. Perhaps it seemed like things couldn't get any better. In truth, they never would. He was in street clothes as he walked toward his car parked about a block away on Second Ave. between E. 124th and E. 125th St., where he saw Miguel Goitia rummaging through the vehicle. The driver's side window was busted out. Edwards grabbed Goitia, who managed to slip out of his sweater and escape Edwards' grip, Kelly said. Gun drawn, Edwards gave chase. At the same time, three plainclothes officers in an unmarked car saw Edwards running down the street. The car made a U-turn, and one of the officers, a white cop with more than four years on the job, got out and fired six shots - hitting Edwards twice, once in the left arm and once in the chest, [New York Police Department Commissioner Raymond] Kelly said. Edwards did not fire his weapon. SOURCE: NY Daily News . The cop who shot him, 30-year-old Andrew Dunton, had never previously fired his weapon. After the Shooting the three officers moved to apprehend Edwards, having mistaken the black cop for a crimi ...