An NYPD cop took a shotgun blast to the face after being ambushed in Brooklyn by a suspected killer early Monday morning — but got off the fatal shot that downed the crazed gunman, police and sources said.
The deadly events began to unfold when Officer Sharjeel Waris, 25, was called to the scene of a homicide in Brownsville around 6 a.m., where a 41-year-old man was shot and left to die on the sidewalk.
Waris and a fellow cop were left to guard the crime scene — when things took a turn for the worse, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.
At 7:45 a.m., the homicide suspect suddenly burst out of a first-floor apartment and fired a shotgun blast that hit Waris in the face — but not before the young cop got off at least one round that struck the killer.
The brute barricaded himself in the apartment, holding police at bay until cops broke a first-floor window and flew a drone into the apartment.
That’s when they spotted the shooter “lying motionless on the kitchen floor with a shotgun on the floor near him,” Tisch said.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
“There were no discharged shell casings inside the apartment,” he said.
Cops have not identified the suspect pending further investigation, and have not revealed a possible motive for the earlier shooting, with the victim in that case identified by police as Leroy Wallace.
Waris suffered wounds to his face “consistent with birdshot pellets being fired from a shotgun” and was rushed to a Brookdale University Hospital. --->READ MORE HERE
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| Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News |
An NYPD officer survived getting shot in the face Monday during an early-morning shootout with a gunman suspected of killing his Brooklyn neighbor an hour earlier, police said.
Officer Sharjeel Waris was guarding evidence inside the vestibule of a Brownsville building where the suspect and murder victim lived when the killer suddenly opened his first-floor apartment door and fired a short-range shotgun blast at him, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.
Waris, 25, a four-year NYPD veteran, returned fire, striking the 24-year-old gunman, who barricaded himself back inside his home only to die there from his wounds, Tisch said.
The gunman was identified by family members as Dashawn Larode.
The wounded officer, meanwhile, was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital with a minor birdshot pellet wound to the left side of his face.
“He is in good spirits,” Tisch said of the wounded officer.
“But make no mistake, this could have ended very differently,” she said. “What happened this morning is a reminder of how quickly danger finds the men and women who protect this city. They stood their ground, they did their jobs and they kept people safe. And once again they reminded us all what it means to put on that uniform.”
Cops said that earlier Larode shot his neighbor in the adjacent apartment, 41-year-old Leroy Wallace, who stumbled out of the building and collapsed on the sidewalk near Hegeman Ave. and Thomas S. Boyland St., where responding cops found him dead just before 6 a.m.
Responding officers knocked on Larode’s door and nobody answered, leading them to believe he was not home and had fled the scene.
But he was still lurking inside, waiting for an opportunity to strike, Tisch said. The 7:45 a.m. sneak attack on Waris, who was guarding a shell casing in the vestibule being preserved as evidence to the murder, cost the killer his own life.
The sister of the gunman, Dashawna Larode, told News 12 Brooklyn that she was sleeping inside the apartment that she shared with her brother when she was awakened by a noise outside her window.
“I walked out to see what my brother was doing, and his last words were, ‘Dashawna, just put your hands up,'” she told the outlet.
Dashawna said she soon heard around six gunshots fired and when she went to check on her brother, she saw him lying on the ground.
Initially, cops were not certain Dashawn had been wounded in the exchange. During the subsequent standoff, cops busted a first-floor window and employed a drone to check out the shooter’s apartment. --->READ MORE HERE
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