The last New York City officer to be fatally shot was Brian Mulkeen, a who was killed by so-called friendly fire in September 2019 while he struggled with an armed man in the Bronx.
In October 2015, Officer Randolph Holder was fatally shot by a suspect he was chasing in East Harlem.
The previous December, two officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, were killed while sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn. The gunman shot them at point-blank range after traveling to New York from Baltimore intent on killing officers.
The two men, veteran officers, were murdered by a man who had traveled to New York City from Baltimore, saying he intended to kill police officers. The man later killed himself with the same gun used to shoot Officer Ramos and Office Liu.
The 2014 killing came on the heels of national protests over police brutality — officers notably turned their backs on then-Mayor Bill de Blasio during the officers’ funerals — after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., at the hands of police.
The man who shot and killed both officers made statements on social media at the time, saying he was angered over the deaths of Mr. Brown and Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who died after being placed in an illegal chokehold by an N.Y.P.D. officer.
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