{"id":1473252,"date":"2022-05-12T14:45:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T18:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1473252"},"modified":"2022-05-12T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T18:45:19","slug":"nypd-officer-wounded-during-shootout-expected-to-make-full-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nypd-officer-wounded-during-shootout-expected-to-make-full-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD officer wounded during shootout, expected to make full recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnypd-officer-wounded-during-shootout-expected-to-make-full-recovery%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1473252&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2406271\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2406271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(AP Photo\/Mary Altaffer)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN NEWSROOM<br \/>UPDATED 11;33 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, May 12, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>New York City Police Department officer Dennis Vargas is recovering after he was shot in the arm while on duty. During a press conference Wednesday, New York Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said the 32-year old officer has been released from the hospital.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The bravery of our officer, who was shot in the Bronx, is to be commended. We\u2019re thankful he\u2019s walking out of the hospital to continue recovering \u2014 and in awe of his dedication to the New Yorkers he proudly serves. Join us in the round of applause! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KOeu4RPhR4\">pic.twitter.com\/KOeu4RPhR4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Commissioner Sewell (@NYPDPC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYPDPC\/status\/1524275605122039809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Sewell, Vargas was shot by 25-year-old male suspect Rameek Smith in Brooklyn on Tuesday. The shootout unfolded after the suspect ran from the officer and his partner after he was approached. This led to a foot chase. Vargas returned fire at Smith striking the suspect in the head. The suspect was later pronounced dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig released additional information regarding the suspect and of what was found at the scene of the shootout.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cA nine-millimeter Glock 48 was recovered on the scene\u2026it was stolen out of Richmond, Virginia, June 14th of last year,\u201d he stated. \u201cThe perpetrator is known to us as Rameek Smith, a male, 25 years old. He gives an address of 1540 Castleton Avenue in Staten Island, which is a homeless shelter, but he has family with addresses nearby in the Bronx.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It was also revealed that the 25-year-old suspect was a career criminal. Meanwhile, the shooting is the latest string of crimes against law enforcement in the Big Apple with Vargas being the eighth NYPD officer wounded since New York City Mayor Adams took office this year.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Adams and the police commissioner said they will be announcing new actions to help increase public safety as well as the threat of so-called ghost guns due to one being used in Tuesday\u2019s shootout.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/gop-conference-members-address-baby-formula-shortage\/\">GOP Conference Members Address Baby Formula Shortage<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP Photo\/Mary Altaffer) OAN NEWSROOMUPDATED 11;33 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, May 12, 2022 New York City Police Department officer Dennis Vargas is recovering after he was shot in the arm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1473252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1473252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1473252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1473252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1473252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1473252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}