NYPD officer shot, gunman killed after armed barricaded standoff in Brooklyn: police

A 15-year seasoned of the New York City Police Department (NYPD)’s Emergency Service Unit (ESU) was changeable successful the limb Friday greeting during an hours-long standoff with an equipped barricaded antheral successful Brooklyn, authorities said.

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the incidental unfolded astatine astir 5:45 a.m. section clip erstwhile officers from the 79th precinct responded to a 911 telephone reporting aggregate shots fired wrong a two-story location successful Bedford-Stuyvesant.

The gunman, identified arsenic Lamin Simmons, 48, allegedly fired astir 20 rounds passim the standoff, Tisch said.

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NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch confirmed the shooter died astatine a infirmary aft officers returned fire. (WNYW)

Drone footage allegedly captured Simmons wielding a handgun, and astatine astir 8:30 a.m., helium hurled ample items — including a microwave, lamp and pots and pans — retired of a model astatine officers staged successful the backyard below.

While Simmons' woman and lad safely escaped the location and told constabulary astir his past of intelligence illness, an aged mates remained trapped connected the level above, Tisch said. 

Police determined the incidental initially stemmed from a quality involving the couple.

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At 8:52 a.m., ESU officers entered the location and encountered Simmons astatine the apical of the stairs, Tisch said. He allegedly ignored aggregate nonstop constabulary orders to driblet his weapon and opened occurrence connected the officers, striking detective Matthew Gale successful the near leg.

At slightest 4 officers returned fire, striking Simmons, who was aboriginal taken to Woodhull Hospital and pronounced dead, constabulary said.

FILE – The NYPD said the incidental stemmed from an altercation with an aged mates surviving successful the aforesaid house. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Investigators recovered 2 weapons astatine the scene: a Jimenez Arms .380 caliber handgun and a Beretta handgun equipped with an extended magazine, Tisch said.

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Simmons did not person anterior documented past with the NYPD.

Gale suffered a tibial fracture but remains successful unchangeable information and successful "good spirits" astatine Kings County Hospital, wherever helium is expected to survive, according to authorities.

FILE - New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani wished the wounded NYPD detective a speedy recovery. (Leonardo Munoz/AFP)

Tisch praised the wounded detective and the ESU for consistently handling the city's astir volatile assignments, saying they "met that information with uncommon valor."

"What happened this greeting is simply a reminder that the men and women of the NYPD routinely spot themselves betwixt information and the radical that they serve. They participate situations that are uncertain and volatile and often life-threatening," Tisch said. "This morning, detective Gale enactment his beingness connected the enactment doing precisely that."

"We similar to accidental that erstwhile the nationalist needs help, they telephone the police, and erstwhile the constabulary request help, they telephone ESU," she continued. "Today, erstwhile again, they met that information with uncommon valor."

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani visited the infirmary to convey the aesculapian unit and commend Gale's bravery, noting, "He enactment connected his uniform, helium near his house, helium said goodbye to his family, and helium went to his occupation to support our metropolis safe."

"When New Yorkers telephone 911, they expect idiosyncratic to amusement up," Mamdani said. "What this officer, and truthful galore others, [did] contiguous was precisely that. I privation to convey the archetypal responders and the officers who acted truthful swiftly successful the aftermath of this shooting, and I cognize that each New Yorkers volition articulation maine successful wishing detective Gale a afloat and speedy recovery."