Breaking news 2 NYPD cops shot dead ‘execution style’ in Brooklyn

(CBSNewYork/AP) — Two police officers have been shot dead in Brooklyn, City Councilman Robert Cornegy said at a news conference Saturday afternoon.

As 1010 WINS’ Gary Baumgarten reported, there is a huge police presence at the corner of Myrtle Avenue & Tompkins Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Cornegy told 1010 WINS’ police have briefed him and told him the officers were sitting in their car at the time of the incident.

Sources: 2 Police Officers Shot In Brooklyn

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Sources told 1010 WINS the two officers were taken to Woodhull Hospital with gunshot injuries.

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Authorities say the suspect ran into the subway, where he shot himself and is believed to be dead, the Associated Press reported.

The suspect was taken to Kings County Hospital with a gunshot wound to the head, sources told Baumgarten.

Sources also said a gun was recovered at the scene.

WCBS 880’s Jim Smith is on the scene and reports a group of police officers and emergency service unit officers are present with helmets, machine guns and bulletproof vests.

A police helicopter was also seen flying low overhead, Smith reported.

Stay with CBS New York for more on this developing story.

2 NYPD cops shot dead ‘execution style’ in Brooklyn

By Larry Celona, Kevin Fasick and Jamie Schram

December 20, 2014 | 4:07pm

A possible suspect was found shot at the scene and rushed to a nearby hospital. Photo: Paul Martinka

Two uniformed NYPD officers were shot dead — execution style — as they sat in their marked police car on a Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, street corner.

According to preliminary reports, both officers were working overtime as part of an anti-terrorism drill when they were shot point-blank by a single gunman who approached their car at the corner of Myrtle and Tompkins avenues.

“It’s an execution,” one law enforcement source told The Post of the 3 p.m. shooting.

The gunman just started “pumping bullets” into the patrol car, another source said.

The suspected gunman fled to a nearby subway station at Myrtle and Willoughby avenues, where he was fatally shot. Preliminary reports were unclear on whether he was shot by police or his own hand.

The scene of the shooting.Photo: William Farrington

“They engaged the guy and he did himself,” one investigator said.

“I heard shooting, — four or five shots,” ear-witness Derrick McKie, 49, told The Post.

“It sounded like from a single gun,” he said. Ambulances and police cars rushed to the scene, he said.

A possible suspect on a stretcher at the scene.Photo: Paul Martinka

“I saw an officer being put on a stretcher,” he said. “There was lots of chaos and confusion.”

Carmen Jimenez, 32, a social worker from Bedford-Stuyvesant, was on the subway platform when the gunman ran inside, pursued by officers.

“Everything happened so quick,” said Jimenez, who is eight months pregnant. “We were standing waiting for the G train. We heard arguing from the other end of the platform.

It looked like two cops came in there was lots of yelling and they said, ‘Everybody get down.’

“We tried to get out of there, and there was a lot of shouting, people were screaming, people were trying to run.

“I threw myself on the floor. I was afraid for my life and afraid for my baby.”

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Comment by Amaterasu Solar on December 22, 2014 at 11:32am: Well... I can't get that last vid to load - here or on YT - so I don't know what "the shooter said his motives were" in that vid. But MY money is on more divide & conquer psyop.

Comment by EDOGZ818 on December 21, 2014 at 11:55pm: Anything is possible, but my $$ is on what the shooter said his motives were.

Comment by Nikki on December 21, 2014 at 11:03pm: Anything is possible. Shooter may have been mind controlled too.

Comment by EDOGZ818 on December 21, 2014 at 10:35pm: @nikki -

Interesting theory.

It is possible that the shooter was actually despondent about police brutality, IMHO.

Comment by Nikki on December 21, 2014 at 10:13pm: Let's see...2 cops are ambushed during a terror drill in Bed Sty. NYPD is doing a terror drill in Bed Sty because??? Are they worried terrorists might do us a favor and wipe this chitty neighborhood from the map? And the shooter just happens to be Muslim who then kills himself? Hmm.

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Comment by Amaterasu Solar on December 20, 2014 at 8:57pm: Just curious... How did that cameraperson know, from that distance, that "two cops were shot in the head?" Nothing on that footage reveals that...

Comment by Ragnarok on December 20, 2014 at 8:39pm

Comment by Amaterasu Solar on December 20, 2014 at 8:33pm: I wonder if THIS story is true... Sure would go a long way in justifying more draconian measures. Just saying.

Comment by merlynX on December 20, 2014 at 7:24pm: Maybe now the police will not be so biased against people and especially black people. I only hope whoever is doing this doesn't forget the crooked prosecutors and corupt robe wearers, and the useless/paid off politicians. There should be a hunting season so the people can clean up this country's vermin every so often. The whole "criminals Injustice System", run by criminals, and for criminals, making jobs for all the Dept of Corruptions (State and Federal DOC's) system.

Comment by Nikki on December 20, 2014 at 7:21pm: Updates, police were ambushed while sitting in their car.

http://gothamist.com/2014/12/20/two_police_officers_shot_in_the_hea...

Comment by EDOGZ818 on December 20, 2014 at 7:18pm: ~~~~~> Thinks about the cops at the Eric Gardner rally, laughing & wearing "I Can Breathe" T shirts, laughing like it was He-Larry-Us..

Wonder if they still have anymore of those shirts for sale.

http://twitchy.com/2014/12/20/rapper-the-game-to-murdered-nypd-offi...