Police Officer Is Shot and Killed in ‘Unprovoked Attack’ in the Bronx
Officer was sitting in the front passenger seat of a command post van when the suspect walked up and shot her. RIP Officer Familia.
A two-time convict who has voiced anger at law enforcement officers in the past shot and killed a New York City officer through a police vehicle window in the Bronx early Wednesday, in what the police commissioner called an “unprovoked attack.” The gunman was killed by other officers, the police said.
The officer, Miosotis Familia, 48, was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where she was pronounced dead about three hours after the shooting.
The gunman, identified by the police as Alexander Bonds, 34, was paroled in May 2013 after serving seven years in one of New York State’s most notorious prisons for a robbery in the Syracuse area.
In a video he posted to Facebook in September of last year, he railed against prison conditions and warned people of officers raping or killing inmates. But he also hinted that he would not back down in any future confrontations with police officers on the streets.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/n...-shooting.htmlOfficer Familia, who was in uniform, had been sitting in a mobile command unit — a truck-size police vehicle that is big enough to house equipment and several officers — on the south side of East 183rd Street, near Creston Avenue, in the Fordham Heights neighborhood.
Around 12:30 a.m., as Officer Familia neared the end of her shift, Mr. Bonds walked up to the vehicle and fired a single round from a .38-caliber, five-shot Ruger revolver through a passenger-side window, according to Deputy Chief Jason Wilcox, the commander of detectives in the Bronx.
Immediately after the shooting, Officer Familia’s partner, Vincent Maher, called for assistance, and two other officers encountered the suspect, who was running on Morris Avenue, about one block away. When the gunman drew a silver revolver, they opened fire, killing him.
A bystander was struck by a bullet in that shootout, and is in stable condition, said the police commissioner, James P. O’Neill.
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