A police officer has died
after being shot in the head while responding to a report of a man armed with a
gun in Manhattan.
The officer, named by the New
York police department as Randolph Holder, was fatally shot in east Harlem on
Tuesday evening.
The police department said an
exchange of gunfire had taken place. “Officers in east Harlem responded to
shots fired.
“Police officer Holder was
fatally shot; a wounded suspect was apprehended four blocks away,” a statement
from the department, posted on Twitter, said.
Holder, of Police Service Area
5, the housing bureau, in Manhattan, was reportedly pursuing a man on foot
after a report that a bicycle had been stolen.
Holder and another officer
confronted the armed man and there was an exchange of gunfire, Commissioner
Bill Bratton said. The officer was struck and the shooter fled on foot. The
suspect was caught several blocks away with a gunshot wound to his leg.
Three men were taken into
custody and were being questioned. A section of a busy parkway was shut down
near where the officer was shot.
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