A 22-year-old NYPD rookie officer was killed in the line of duty, and another cop is “clinging to life” after they responded to a domestic violence call at a first-floor apartment in Harlem.
At about 6:00 p.m. Friday, the officers responded to a 911 call about a possible domestic violence incident involving a woman and her son. The pair had reportedly fought in the apartment on W. 135th St. near Malcolm X Blvd shortly before the officers arrived.
The cops spoke to the mother in the front room of the apartment after she called the police, and when the officers went to a back room to talk to her son, he opened fire.
“They went into the building, and it jumped off,” said 62-year-old neighbor Garrett Fowler. “There were two guys being brought out of the building on stretchers. They weren’t moving at all.”
The slain officer started on the job in 2020, the other gravely injured cop, a 27-year-old who joined the force in 2018, was undergoing surgery. Law enforcement sources also said one of the officers was struck in the face by gunfire.
Sources confirmed that the 47-year-old suspect, Lawshawn McNeil, was fatally shot in the head and arm by the third officer who entered the apartment in response to the gunshots.
This shooting marks the fifth officer shot in NYC in three weeks.
