NYC cop shooting suspect caught upstate and taken away in victim’s handcuffs
Law enforcement sources said a man suspected of shooting an off-duty NYPD cop in a botched robbery was arrested Monday while hiding in an upstate hotel.
The 38-year-old suspect, who sources identified as Randy Jones, was with his girlfriend and her children when he was arrested in Rockland County, sources said.
Jones was pulled out in handcuffs that belonged to a badly injured police officer and taken back to Brooklyn, where he arrived at the 75th Precinct shortly before 7 p.m. Monday. He was wearing an orange Carhartt hoodie and brown sweatpants when the police brought him to the precinct building.
The suspect, who is expected to be charged in Saturday’s East New York shooting, has hired a lawyer and did not answer investigators’ questions, sources said.
The critically injured officer – a 26-year-old married father of two who thought he was buying a Honda Pilot through the Facebook Marketplace when he was ambushed – remains on life support at Brookdale Hospital.
His suspected shooter has a long criminal record and is currently wanted on a vehicle and traffic warrant dated 2019, sources say.
His conviction includes 22 arrests, including grand theft, harassment and strangulation, sources told The Post.
Police launched a massive manhunt for the accused of assault after a police officer was shot in the head during a botched robbery.
The officer and his son-in-law were carrying $24,000 in cash to buy the alleged car around 7:00 p.m. Saturday when the cowardly crook drew a gun and opened fire.
The police officer’s brother-in-law pulled the fallen officer’s pistol from its holster and returned fire as the suspect jumped into a black BMW SUV and sped away.
Police found the abandoned SUV on Sunday at 129th Street and Park Avenue in Harlem, where the suspect lives with his girlfriend, the sources said.
The BMW is owned by the alleged shooter’s mother, who lives in East New York near the scene of the shooting, sources said.
On Monday, the department offered the shooter a $10,000 reward.
The mail does not release the name of the wounded officer.
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