Shot brother-in-law of on-duty cop fires back during NYC robbery botched: sources

New details emerged on Sunday of a robbery that left an off-duty NYPD cop clinging to life, including how a relative of the victim pulled the ailing officer’s gun from its holster to return fire, sources said. police.

Police are still on the hunt for the shooter who badly wounded an officer in an ambush at the Facebook Marketplace in Brooklyn on Saturday night.

The police officer, a 26-year-old father of two, accompanied his son-in-law to an eastern New York address around 7 p.m. because the relative was hoping to buy a car, the sources said.

The couple, who had about $24,000 in cash, were lured into a dark driveway at 472 Ruby Street, ostensibly to check on a vehicle, when an armed suspect announced the assault and “almost immediately” drew a gun, police and sources said.

Investigators believe the same perpetrator was behind a similar incident in the same block on January 13th.

The suspect fired, and the badly wounded officer lost consciousness. According to sources, his son-in-law pulled the ailing Finest’s pistol from its holster and shot at the swindler.

It is not clear if a relative of the suspect, who fled in a BMW, hit him and may have had an accomplice driving his getaway car, sources said.

The wounded officer – a five-year veteran of the security forces, whose name was not released by The Post until the official release – was shot in the head and is on life support at Brookdale Hospital, where dozens of relatives and members of the New York’s Finest are staying. have been collected.

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In another recent Facebook Marketplace heist, the victim showed up at the corner of Dumont Avenue and Ruby Street around 7:10 pm that Friday to make a purchase when the scammer pulled out a gun and demanded, “I know you brought the money.” to sources.

In this case, the robber escaped with $18,000, sources said.

“We will catch the person responsible for this act,” Mayor Eric Adams told reporters at the hospital Saturday night, referring to Saturday’s tragedy. “An officer with a simple assignment and a dangerous man pulled out a firearm.

“As we often see in this city, too many illegal weapons are in the hands of bad people and do bad things,” the mayor said.

In addition to the January 13 incident, the city saw two more Facebook Marketplace ambushes last year, including the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man from Rockland County who responded to a motorcycle ad in the Bronx in May. The crimes are believed to be unrelated to the shooting on Saturday.

In October, federal prosecutors announced that a pair of Bronx teens had individually used online ads to lure victims into robberies and car thefts.