The AP has deleted a tweet from Friday night that erroneously said the suspect in a New York police shooting had died, information that had come from a law-enforcement source who spoke on condition of anonymity. The suspect was critically wounded.
In an undated photo released by the NYPD, New York Police Department officer Jason Rivera who was killed in a police shooting, Friday, Jan. 21, 2022, in New York City, is seen. Officials say a New York City police officer Jason Rivera, 22 years old, has been killed and fellow officer Wilbert Mora, 27 years old, was critically wounded in a shooting in Harlem. The officers had been responding to a call Friday about an argument between a woman and her adult son.
The man police say shot them, Lashawn J. McNeil, 47, also was critically wounded and hospitalized, authorities said.The shooting is the latest in a string of crimes that have unnerved the nation’s largest city. “I remember one day when I witnessed my brother being stopped and frisked. I asked myself, why are we being pulled over if we are in a taxi?” he wrote. “My perspective on police and the way they police really bothered me.”
Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul both said federal authorities need to do more to round up stolen guns like the one used in the Harlem shooting. Hochul, at an appearance in Buffalo on Saturday, called it a “scourge of illegal guns on our streets.” Authorities said the three officers went to the apartment after the call came in. Officers spoke with the woman and another son, but there was no mention of a weapon.