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05-29-2009, 11:47 AM
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Off-duty NYPD cop fatally shot by fellow officer
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — A plainclothes policeman who drew his sidearm while chasing someone he had found rummaging through his car was shot and killed by a fellow officer in New York City.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says 25-year-old Omar Edwards died after being shot late Thursday within blocks of the Harlem police station where he worked.
The officer who shot him was driving by and saw the pursuit.
Kelly says Edwards had just finished his shift around 10:30 p.m. when he headed to his car and saw that the driver’s-side window had been smashed and a man was going through the vehicle.
Edwards struggled with the man, who got away from him by slipping out of his sweater, Kelly said. Edwards chased the man up two streets with his gun drawn.
Kelly said a sergeant and two plainclothes officers in an unmarked police car saw the pursuit and made a U-turn to follow the men. One of the officers jumped out of the car and fired six times, hitting Edwards twice — once in the arm and once in the chest.
Kelly said Edwards did not fire his weapon. He died at the Harlem Hospital Center about an hour after the shooting.
http://www.calgarysun.com/news/world/2009/05/29/9614031.html
This seems like something straight out of the movies, I wonder what the Officer is going through right now.
Off-duty NYPD cop fatally shot by fellow officer
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — A plainclothes policeman who drew his sidearm while chasing someone he had found rummaging through his car was shot and killed by a fellow officer in New York City.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says 25-year-old Omar Edwards died after being shot late Thursday within blocks of the Harlem police station where he worked.
The officer who shot him was driving by and saw the pursuit.
Kelly says Edwards had just finished his shift around 10:30 p.m. when he headed to his car and saw that the driver’s-side window had been smashed and a man was going through the vehicle.
Edwards struggled with the man, who got away from him by slipping out of his sweater, Kelly said. Edwards chased the man up two streets with his gun drawn.
Kelly said a sergeant and two plainclothes officers in an unmarked police car saw the pursuit and made a U-turn to follow the men. One of the officers jumped out of the car and fired six times, hitting Edwards twice — once in the arm and once in the chest.
Kelly said Edwards did not fire his weapon. He died at the Harlem Hospital Center about an hour after the shooting.
http://www.calgarysun.com/news/world/2009/05/29/9614031.html
This seems like something straight out of the movies, I wonder what the Officer is going through right now.