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Police Officer Is Shot in ‘Unprovoked Attack’ in the Bronx - The New York Times

posted onJuly 5, 2017
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Article snippet: A police officer was shot and critically injured early Wednesday while sitting in a police vehicle in the Bronx, in what the police commissioner called an “unprovoked attack.” The officer, a 12-year police veteran assigned to the anti-crime unit of the 46th precinct, was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where she was listed in extremely critical condition. The officer was sitting in a marked Police Department command vehicle near the corner of East 183rd Street and Morris Avenue, in the Fordham Heights neighborhood, around 12:30 a.m. when a suspect shot her through the window, according to the police commissioner, James P. O’Neill. “Based on what we know right now, this was an unprovoked attack against police officers who want to keep this great city safe,” Mr. O’Neill said at a news conference at the scene. Link to the full article to read more

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